From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jul 29 5:59:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EAA31506E for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 05:59:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost (billf@localhost) by jade.chc-chimes.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA18376; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 08:00:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 08:00:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola To: Garrett Wollman Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall tcpip.c In-Reply-To: <199907290226.WAA11541@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > Not when I tell my switch that port 1 is VLAN 1 and port 2 is VLAN 2. > > Port 1 will never see port 2's traffic. > > It's generally considered something less than manageable to assign a > separate /30 to every single machine in your network. Granted, I > for one have the address space to burn, but most people I know don't. > :-) > > wollman@khavrinen$ rsh mintaka fgrep ' A ' /etc/named.db/lcs.db | wc -l > 4156 > > Oops... my switches only support 256 router interfaces. I guess I > can't use your idea to increase my address-space utilization from 0.5% > to 2.1%. Oh well.... I'm not talking about IP level, I'm talking about layer 2. I'll repeat my previous statement: If I put two different machines on seperate VLANs on my switch it doesn't matter what network protocol they run, they will never see each other. VLANs are not dependent on subnets. -- - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - PS. maybe we're talking about different subjects here. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message