----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronald Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 9:16 AM Subject: [plug] OT: ip address, routing atbp
> Just need some clarifications, on the following scenarios, the same > router is used but different subnets are involved, the load is the > same, and there are 2500 users, no vlan involved. > > 1. using ten of the subnets in 10.1.0.0/255.255.255.0 > 2. using an unsubnetted 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 and using the first > 2500 ip addresses > > If there is a server with ip address 192.168.9.1, which pc would it > reach faster in the above scenario? > > For me, i would say that scenario 1 would be faster than scenario 2 > since scenario 1 has a smaller broadcast domain -- only 254 pcs > vs. the 2500 pcs in the second scenario. > > Is my assumption correct? both are the same in terms of number of hops (route) reaching to that given server ip address because the ip address of that server is not belong to neither of the two network segments given above. therefore if not the same network segment, data is pass to network layer (ip layer or routing) instead to data link layer (mac layer). the only advantage of number 1 is that less *collission* due to less number of nodes connected in a broadcast domain (if this is in a switch environment)... less collision means lesser corruption of datagrams therefore lesser to retransmit of data from sender which makes faster to communicate to your server compare to number 2. fooler. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
