On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:13:24AM -0500, Steven Bellovin wrote: > > I know nothing of how to do this on a Catalyst; for PCs, my own guess > is that you're looking far too high-end. If the issue is relaying to > the outside, I suspect that a small, dedicated Soekris or the like > will do all you need -- there's no point in switching traffic faster > than your DSL lines can run. I'm not doing load-balancing, but all > traffic from my house to the outside world (I have a cable modem) > goes through a Soekris 4801, and I can download large files from my > office at 12-13M bps. Further, since the Soekris is bridging some > networks, its interfaces are in promiscuous mode, so the box is > seeing every packet on my home LAN.
Really? If it's connected to a switch, I'd expect it to only see broadcast/multicast/unknown destination MACs, as well as traffic actually flowing through the Soekris. -- Brett