From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 18 21:18:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3254737B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:18:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8984943F85 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:18:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from pursued-with.net ([192.168.168.101]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h5J4Io3e010646; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:18:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:18:17 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: faisal gillani From: Kevin Stevens In-Reply-To: <20030619035250.74369.qmail@web11004.mail.yahoo.com> Message-Id: <0D666B74-A20D-11D7-A361-000A959CEE6A@pursued-with.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT question releated to networking ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 04:18:19 -0000 On Wednesday, Jun 18, 2003, at 20:52 US/Pacific, faisal gillani wrote: Please don't remove the list from the Reply-To: header... > Well i am currently running a 75 clients PC network .. > so my net will be > merging a 120 Computer network & the total computer > network will be 240+ all > of em will be on a single subnet .. > is that a good idea ? Probably not, depending on the infrastructure and traffic you could=20 have performance issues, and even if not that's a large and ugly=20 broadcast domain, as well as not very secure. > the networks usage is internet , some multimedia > content hosted on local web > servers , streaming , email server .. You'd probably be better served by separating the server functions onto=20= one subnet and breaking the client population up into two or three=20 groups. Obviously this is generic information as you didn't provide=20 specifics. As you noted, this is off-topic for the freebsd list; I=20 suggest you look at Cisco's site for some whitepapers on network=20 topology and implementation. > *=BA=A4., =B8=B8,.=A4=BA*=A8=A8=A8*=A4 Allah-hu-Akber*=BA=A4., = =B8=B8,.=A4=BA*=A8=A8*=A4 Whatever. KeS