From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 2 17:55:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE9C14EF8 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 17:55:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA07526; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 17:56:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 17:56:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Brad Tucker Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 ethernet cards In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Brad Tucker wrote: > what if I changed the ifconfig to read: > ifconfig_ed0 -inet 206.117.19.2 netmask 255.255.255.224 (1-31 usable?) > ifconfig_ed1 -inet 206.117.19.126 netmask 255.255.255.192 (65-126 usable?) > wouldnt this free up some space for more hosts? If you do something like Router|----+----|ed0 ed1|---- internal network 206.117.19.64/26 | +-- external network 206.117.19.0/26 you could run 62 addresses on the "external net". But if you have any appletalk traffic on those hosts you defeat the purpose of the exercise. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message