Re: Dumb networking question about IP forwarding
Dale E. Martin wrote: Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What you are trying to do is make a bridge. This is experimental in the new 2.2.x kernels. Will that work with IPX? There are Novell boxes on this network as well... It should. Bridges are suppost to work at the hardware layer. They do not care about what higher level protocols they are passing ie. TCP/IP or IPX. You can achieve the same affect with a 100Mbs Hub which you can connect all your 10Mbs and 100Mbs devices to. If I had a hub or a switch that could run dual speeds, I wouldn't have asked the question :-) Just checking ;-) -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dumb networking question about IP forwarding
Dale E. Martin wrote: I have a Debian Linux box that I'd like to use as a switch (I guess) in a network. It's going to have a 100Mbs network card and a 10Mbs network card in it. I'd like the IP addresses of the to be on the same network - e.g. one will be 10.0.0.1 and the other 10.0.0.2. If I enable forwarding in the kernel on this box, will it transparently forward from one segment to the other, or do I need to do special routing? What you are trying to do is make a bridge. This is experimental in the new 2.2.x kernels. You can achieve the same affect with a 100Mbs Hub which you can connect all your 10Mbs and 100Mbs devices to. -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dumb networking question about IP forwarding
Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What you are trying to do is make a bridge. This is experimental in the new 2.2.x kernels. Will that work with IPX? There are Novell boxes on this network as well... You can achieve the same affect with a 100Mbs Hub which you can connect all your 10Mbs and 100Mbs devices to. If I had a hub or a switch that could run dual speeds, I wouldn't have asked the question :-) Later, Dale -- +- pgp key available --+ | Dale E. Martin | Clifton Labs, Inc. | Senior Computer Engineer| | [EMAIL PROTECTED]|http://www.clifton-labs.com | +--+
