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Date:      Mon, 19 Apr 2004 20:58:08 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Danny <bchadmin@eagleroaming.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Simple Router on FreeBSD - Which should I use?
Message-ID:  <20040419195808.GB52650@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20040419190652.M88645@eagleroaming.com>
References:  <20040419190652.M88645@eagleroaming.com>

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On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 03:06:51PM -0500, Danny wrote:
> I would like to setup a simple router, for the following:
>=20
> Enable a 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 network talk to a 10.10.0.0 255.255.0.=
0=20
> network, and obviously vise versa.

Just setup your FreeBSD box with an interface on each network, and put
'gateway_enable=3D"YES"' into /etc/rc.conf  Trivially easy.
=20
> Now the 10.10.0.0 is tentative, so I am also wondering on a network with =
less=20
> then 240 network nodes, if a 255.255.0.0 subnet mask would cause any=20
> disadvantages, versus using a 255.255.255.0 subnet mask?=20

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.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.                       26 The Paddocks
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