From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 20 13:56:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA13275 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 13:56:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from nimbus.superior.net (root@nimbus.superior.net [206.153.96.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA13269 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 13:56:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from exidor@localhost) by nimbus.superior.net (8.7.6/8.7.5) id QAA20162; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 16:55:28 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199611202155.QAA20162@nimbus.superior.net> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 16:55:27 -0500 From: exidor@superior.net (Christopher Masto) To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ipx to ip routing References: <199611201703.MAA11015@nimbus.superior.net> <199611201716.LAA07479@brasil.moneng.mei.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.48.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199611201716.LAA07479@brasil.moneng.mei.com>; from Joe Greco on Nov 20, 1996 11:16:31 -0600 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Joe Greco writes: > Ethernet switches are not supposed to do anything other than MAC level > address routing. > > Switches by definition will certainly allow IP address collisions because > they do not have a clue what the hell an IP address is. > > The other disadvantage of switches is the potentially large amount of > ARP'ing that can go on to locate hosts in such a network. I guess you're not aware of some of the stuff Synoptics/Bay makes. Check it out sometime - it may come in handy some day. -- Christopher Masto . . . . Superior Net Support: support@superior.net chris@masto.com . . . . . Masto Consulting: info@masto.com On Flight Attendants, International: The stewardesses of Southwest Airlines must go through four steps, such as hardship, tiredment, dirt feeling. Beside the quality of general stewardess. - from the first edition of Chinese airline Southwest Civil Aviation's - Inflight Magazine.