Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:00:25 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Cc: jkf@calweb.com, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: router/bridge question Message-ID: <199811090700.IAA27388@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <36468536.28F5C35@softweyr.com> from "Wes Peters" at Nov 8, 98 11:01:07 pm
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> > rest of the internet. I would like to split the inside network into two > > segments and have the gateway bridge the two inside segments, in addition to ... > > Any help/comments/pointers much appriciated. > > Buy an inexpensive 4- or 8-port ethernet switch, and put your FreeBSD > router on a switch port, with each of your two new "subnets" uplinked > into other switch ports. You won't have to partition your addresses > or any other silly admin headaches. while i agree that given the budget one can use a switch, i want to point out that: + the additional cost for the original solution is just one more ethernet card; + even by dedicating a full machine to the task, a real switch (not a hub) might probably cost as much as a leftover pentium machine with 2-3 ethernet boards; + most "inexpensive" switches come with UTP connectors, sothe original poster might have to put in additional UTP<->BNC adapters. and finally: + bridging in FreeBSD is real bridging -- you don't have to partition addresses or admin/configure anything for the bridging part. not to mention that you can make use of firewall and dummynet at the bridging level. > Never use software to solve a hardware problem. ;^) and, i hope you are aware that a switch, unlike a hub is not a "pure" hardware device, but there is software running on it to handle forwarding, manage queues etc. luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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