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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Raul Tamayo Fernandez <rtamayo@cicese.mx>
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On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Raul Tamayo Fernandez wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I have three Ethernet subnetworks and I want to connect them to the
> backbone. I would like to have a PC running FreeBSD as a router for the
> three subnetworks, so I need to install four network cards in the PC.
> Can I do this? Can a PC with FreeBSD manage the three subnetworks?

Sure.  Routing might get sticky but otherwise it should work OK as a
router.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major