From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 3 12:33:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0321416A400 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 12:33:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8746A43D45 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 12:33:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 32232 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2006 22:33:09 +1000 Received: from 210-84-32-140.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (210.84.32.140) by adwentures.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 3 Apr 2006 22:33:08 +1000 Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 22:33:04 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: Mark Jayson Alvarez Message-ID: <20060403223304.1b12fd0b@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060330081952.44949.qmail@web51605.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060330081952.44949.qmail@web51605.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.16; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do you divide your network?? (do you use vlan??) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:33:10 -0000 On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:19:52 -0800 (PST) Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > I don't want to divide the network by physical topology since users > frequently transfer to other departments... if you add a firewall (pf / ipf / ipfw) you can control what kind of traffic/broadcast goes where. Of course, for this you'd need all the different segments to 'terminate' in a NIC in your pcrouter, rather than all of them together in a unmanaged switch. you can get dual and quad interface network cards, so you could have 12 network ports in your pcrouter. then add another one with carp for redundancy. And dont forget I just gleaned over your email, so I may be way off the mark ( didn't see any other replies...so I thought at least I'd get something out there...) good luck, Beto