From owner-freebsd-net Mon Feb 22 19:54:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D65111E9 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:54:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-wat.sentex.net (ospf-wat.sentex.net [209.167.248.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA29046; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:53:20 -0500 (EST) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: jon@caamora.com.au (jonathan michaels) Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ethernet segment spliting Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 04:01:13 GMT Message-ID: <36d22635.947960475@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 22 Feb 1999 19:22:57 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.misc you wrote: >after preening teh faq and the handbook .. most of which i fonf difficult to >read at teh best of times, i've concluded that i need to setup several >bridges, but that is as far as it goes. i am not sure how to do this or how to >set up teh routing. is their any place i could be able to read up on this >ethernet segment spliting technique. > >any suggestions or book pointers will ne muchly apreciated. Careful of the term bridging. Its not what you really want to employ. You basically want to setup several subnets, one per location and route between them. For example, if 192.168.1.0/24 is the address space you have, create several subnets to match each location. If you had 4 locations, each with an equal amount of equipment, you would subnet the networks 192.168.1.0/26 192.168.1.64/26 192.168.1.128/26 192.168.1.192/26 Then you would route between the 4 networks using dialup PPP. As for good books on intro routing, I dont recall finding much that was good for a beginner. Really, your best bet is to search around the net for various FAQs, howto's and snippets of this and that. The freebsd site is one place to start, and another great tool is www.dejanews.com which is a fantastic repository of information (and some disinformation ;-)). ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message