From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jun 3 8:13:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from stennis.ca.sandia.gov (stennis.ca.sandia.gov [146.246.243.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EE5A14D1F for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 08:13:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@stennis.ca.sandia.gov) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by stennis.ca.sandia.gov (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA16487; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 08:13:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199906031513.IAA16487@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 04/14/1999 To: Clark Joel A1C AMC CSS Cc: "'bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV'" , Wes Peters , "'net@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Routers and such In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Jun 1999 08:44:08 CDT." From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Url: http://www.ca.sandia.gov/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-870266364P"; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 08:13:27 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_-870266364P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Clark Joel A1C AMC CSS wrote: > Right now it is only one subnet, fed from an 56Kbps ISP connection. OK. > But if I understand you correctly, I WILL need one if I need to bring up > another subnet. Yep. From the standpoint of IP, a router is basically a host with multiple network interfaces, that sits on multiple subnets. > And if so, I assume routed will suffice for low-bandwidth > applications? routed is used for exchanging routing information with other routers (e.g. "if I need to send a packet addressed to W.X.Y.Z, where does it go next?"). It doesn't have anything to do with actually forwarding packets between interfaces. For a FreeBSD host to act as a router, it doesn't even need to be running routed...having IP forwarding enabled and having appropriate routing table entries configured on the machine will suffice. But if the question you were asking is "Can a FreeBSD box act as a router for low-bandwidth applications?" I'd handwave and say "yes". Hope my original answer wasn't confusing, but I just wanted to make sure you had the complete picture. Bruce. --==_Exmh_-870266364P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBN1abl6jOOi0j7CY9AQHC4AP+JaQJ8FFBSGmmknvw5TLbyWwfhh4hfGRp cKzNKomm1Pu+H5ZqkOKZ1Sr1FBzeBx/L2IhXy5O0E2VIvi1/IHTeg9y/AddMS9j0 8t1sXukTCixTgzEOYqx3MLxBjY+322JlLHA8r2yi4OlqOcEb0EKC2lEnSBoe8X4e Vo8LBhIn78k= =JmeM -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --==_Exmh_-870266364P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message