Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 08:44:08 -0500 From: Clark Joel A1C AMC CSS <Joel.Clark@scott.af.mil> To: "'bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV'" <bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Clark Joel A1C AMC CSS <Joel.Clark@scott.af.mil>, "'net@freebsd.org'" <net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Routers and such Message-ID: <CDC9D3D7F1E4D111A6350000BC116EFE011442C3@scoisnte83.scott.af.mil>
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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
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