From owner-freebsd-net Mon Feb 22 18:27:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from gw.caamora.com.au (jonath5.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.41.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C79F211E1B for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 18:27:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon@gw.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by gw.caamora.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07301; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:27:53 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Message-ID: <19990223132752.B6930@caamora.com.au> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:27:52 +1100 From: jonathan michaels To: Derek Jewett , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ethernet segment spliting Mail-Followup-To: Derek Jewett , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG References: <002c01be5ec5$0a5455e0$9e2594d1@ws2600> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <002c01be5ec5$0a5455e0$9e2594d1@ws2600>; from Derek Jewett on Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 04:39:56PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD gw.caamora.com.au 2.2.7-RELEASE i386 X-Mood: i'm alive, if it counts Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 04:39:56PM -0800, Derek Jewett wrote: > Are you refering to CIDR (RFC1878) addressing, where you split one ethernet > "network" into multiple "networks" segments...? If so let me know I am quite > seasoned at "supernetting" i don;t think so derek, the best way to describe it is that i have one class c addr and i wnat to use this to setup a 'wan' with just this one addr space. problem being that thier are 3 (at teh moment) locations that are gepgraphically disperced and can only be reached by ppp over telephone lines. to tie this together i ned to setup several bridges over which teh remote network segments would communicate. at least this is how i see it from what i've managed to understand about the diferences between ethernet 'bridges' and 'routers'. a class c would loose far too much if it were to be subneted. thought the cdir (rfc1878) seems to have some appeal .. but it 'frightens' me a bit, i suppose because i don;t understand it. regards and thanks for your reply. jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia =========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message