Re: Stupid Question: bridgeing/routing
George Bonser wrote: I *think* bridging is for bridging one type of traffic to another. FOr example, forwarding IPX traffic on one net to IP on another. On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: I have a 486/66 8M with 4 ne2k clones in it. What does the bridging code get me? Every machine on each of the subnets can see every other machine right now with just the basic routing table? Is it a performance issue? I am using the bridge package and the 2.0.31 kernel to make a 4 port ethernet switch. It keeps track of the MAC address of all the ethernet cards on the network, and only repeats packets on the required segment (segment where destination MAC address is), allowing for more bandwidth. (Each card is connected to 2-3 12 port 10MBit Hubs). The setup is on a Pentium 133 with 3 3Com 595 PCI cards (10/100) and 1 3Com 509 ISA card (10Mbit), with 32MB RAM and a 500MB HDD. None of the interfaces are assigned an IP address, and the system load level is always below 0.05. (no other services running on machine, it is a dedicated switch). I have not seen any bugs or performance problems in the system, (~950 kByte/sec between segments), which has been running since early July. (There are approx. 100 clients on the network). I have not tried it switching a 100Mbit to 3 10Mbit Cards, if anybody has any experience with this, let me know. (To put the servers on the 100Mbit segment) Hope this information helps, It is a very cheap way for a switch (if you have spare NICs and a very stripped down computer). later, troy Troy Hanson t r o y @ d a k o t a . n e t http://www.dakota.net/~troy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Stupid Question: bridgeing/routing
I have a 486/66 8M with 4 ne2k clones in it. What does the bridging code get me? Every machine on each of the subnets can see every other machine right now with just the basic routing table? Is it a performance issue? Thanks -- Walter L. Preuninger IIwaldo @ irc.wasteland.org:#unix [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] L I N U X Where You Really Should Be! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Stupid Question: bridgeing/routing
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: I have a 486/66 8M with 4 ne2k clones in it. What does the bridging code get me? Every machine on each of the subnets can see every other machine right now with just the basic routing table? Is it a performance issue? No. You have one network. A bridge connects two networks together. Mark W. Blunier [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Stupid Question: bridgeing/routing
I have a 486/66 8M with 4 ne2k clones in it. What does the bridging code get me? Every machine on each of the subnets can see every other machine right now with just the basic routing table? Is it a performance issue? Bridging provides you with a bunch of options and features 1. Allows you to bridge between 10Mbps Ethernet and 100Mbps Ethernet. 2. May even allow you to bridge between Ethernet and Token Ring... ?? Anyone? (I've never had reason to look into or try this yet...) 3. Provides you with a ***cheap*** Ethernet switch. The bridge software actually segments the two (or more) networks and keeps traffic destined for local addresses on the local segment. (By building a table of which MAC addresses are located on which segment.) I've used bridging on a number of occassions for both #1 and #3 above. Works great! Love it! One thing though For #3 above, you'll need a *very* fast system to get anywhere near the speed of a true ethernet switch. But... you can't beat the price :-) Later, Kevin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
