David Alexander wrote: > On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 18:56:00 +0100, Thorsten Mühlfelder > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi >> Use bridge-utils to set up a bridge over all eth ports. So will have only >> one IP on all adresses. > > Several people here assume you want a bridge to tie all your > interfaces together. You can go to the trouble of doing that, but > why? The NET5501 is the first Soekris box that can actually saturate > the 100Mbit link. With that in mind I had high hopes that bonding > several nics together might make up for the fact that I was moving my > server from a Gbit capable box to the Soekris. Alas, bonding the nics > didn't provide any real throughput improvements, at least not > according to my primitive tests. The 5501 can really only saturate a > single link at a time. If someone else thinks otherwise I'm all ears.
The one 32 bit 33mhz pci bus is a probably the biggest part of the bottleneck... We've got low-end 600mhz celeron m embedded systems doing more than a gigabit per second bridging between two interfaces. > However, perhaps our assumption is wrong and you're really wanting to > use the nics to separate your networks (internal, DMZ, external, > wireless)? In that case you need to read up on basic network > topology. Subnets and subnet masks is a good place to start > searching. > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
