Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 22:36:26 -0500 From: Len Huppe <huppe@execpc.com> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Bridging a Token Ring and Ethernet LAN Message-ID: <379FCC3A.65C00BE6@execpc.com>
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I have a networking application that I am confident FreeBSD can handle. Just the same, I would like to ask those of you with more experience than I for advice here. My employer has a client with about 125 workstations already configured as a token ring net. These workstations were recently moved to a new location where all of the existing LAN infrastructure is ethernet. Luckily enough, these workstations are all located in the same area so setting them up again was very quick and easy. They simply replaced all of the existing ethernet hubs and switches over to token ring. The problem that my client now faces is how does he bridge this network and connect it to his ethernet LAN? We're down to just two options now. One is to use a Cisco 2513 dual LAN router and situate it between one of the token ring hubs and the nearest ethernet hub, we hope. The other option is to setup a PC Unix router with one token ring and one ethernet NIC installed. Can FreeBSD serve as a router in this configuration? It's only task will be to convert packets between the two formats. It would be a great plus if the two sides of the router could be on the upper and loiwer halves of the same subnet. For example, eth0 would have a network address of 192.168.12.0, and eth1 would have a network address of 192.168.12.128. lemme know what you think Thanks a bunch, Len Huppe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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