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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