From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jun 3 6:43:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from scoisntc02.Scott.af.mil (scoisntc02.scott.af.mil [140.175.36.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5599B14DCF for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 06:43:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Joel.Clark@scott.af.mil) Received: by scoisntc02.scott.af.mil with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 08:44:35 -0500 Message-ID: From: Clark Joel A1C AMC CSS To: "'bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV'" , Wes Peters Cc: Clark Joel A1C AMC CSS , "'net@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Routers and such Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 08:44:08 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Right now it is only one subnet, fed from an 56Kbps ISP connection. But if I understand you correctly, I WILL need one if I need to bring up another subnet. And if so, I assume routed will suffice for low-bandwidth applications? jc > A router is necessary when the machine you're using becomes to slow > to handle the load. There's no reason why you can't just grab another > FreeBSD machine and build a router on it. Even a P100 can easily keep > up with DSL, Cable Modem, or T1 speeds. ISDN or analog modems are no > problem, as long as you get good serial ports. That's true for one particular environment (small network attached to a consumer ISP, where everything goes through a single gateway). When I first read this question, however, I thought, "When you can't put all your hosts on a single subnet and you need to build an internetwork." I'm thinking of a campus network setting, and it's not clear to me which environment the original question was addressing. Cheers, Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message