From owner-freebsd-net Mon Feb 22 18:53:54 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 6D03710F88 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 18:53:48 -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 NAA07384; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:54:12 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Message-ID: <19990223135411.D6930@caamora.com.au> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:54:11 +1100 From: jonathan michaels To: Mike Holling Cc: Derek Jewett , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ethernet segment spliting Mail-Followup-To: Mike Holling , Derek Jewett , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19990223132752.B6930@caamora.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Mike Holling on Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 06:40:23PM -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 mike, On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 06:40:23PM -0800, Mike Holling wrote: > > 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. > > This sounds more like a VPN setup. I don't think attempting to "bridge" > ethernet over a WAN link would work very well. i have a vague rcollection of what a vpn is, but don;t readily recall how to go about seting up something like that. so far, most have suggested that i setup several routers and use addr translation to service teh clients .. this sounds like the best thing to do, and abiut the easiest to setup. only down side is that i will have to move from kernel ppp to userland ppp, ow well into every life some rain must fall, i'm not neaning to eb cyncial, i much prefer to use kernel ppp, as that is where i see ppp belonging. i suppose i'm just an old dog and this is a new trick ... grin. regards and thank yo for yor responce. cheers 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