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Date:      Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:20:31 -0500
From:      "Danny" <bchadmin@eagleroaming.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Simple Router on FreeBSD - Which should I use?
Message-ID:  <20040420161921.M87952@eagleroaming.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040419195808.GB52650@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <20040419190652.M88645@eagleroaming.com> <20040419195808.GB52650@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>

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On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 20:58:08 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 03:06:51PM -0500, Danny wrote:
> > I would like to setup a simple router, for the following:
> > 
> > Enable a 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 network talk to a 10.10.0.0 
255.255.0.0 
> > network, and obviously vise versa.
> 
> Just setup your FreeBSD box with an interface on each network, and 
> put 'gateway_enable="YES"' into /etc/rc.conf  Trivially easy.
> 
> > Now the 10.10.0.0 is tentative, so I am also wondering on a network with 
less 
> > then 240 network nodes, if a 255.255.0.0 subnet mask would cause any 
> > disadvantages, versus using a 255.255.255.0 subnet mask?
> 
> It hardly makes a difference either way.  Seeing as they're all RFC
> 1918 network blocks (or should I say RFC 3330 nowadays?) presumably
> they're on a private internet and you can do what you like there.

Thank you, the packets are a flowin' now. :)

- D



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