From owner-freebsd-net Mon Feb 22 16:15:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from gw.caamora.com.au (jonath5.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.41.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ECEA10EC3 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 16:14:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon@gw.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by gw.caamora.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07072; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 11:15:04 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Message-ID: <19990223111502.A6930@caamora.com.au> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 11:15:02 +1100 From: jonathan michaels To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: ethernet segment spliting Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD gw.caamora.com.au 2.2.7-RELEASE i386 X-Mood: i'm alive, if it counts Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org all, hello i've been reading in teh craig hunt book (tcp/ip network administration) that teh best way to 'glue' together a network spread geographically is to employ several 'bridges'. i am setting up a small community netowrk based on one class c addr range and need to incorporate several sites that can only be reached by pots dialup circuits. 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. regards and with thanks in advance. jonathan. please excuse my poor, english, is not my forst language. -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia =========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message