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Date:      Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:31:59 -0500
From:      "Troy Settle" <troy@psknet.com>
To:        "Tom Samplonius" <tom@sdf.com>, "David Lawson" <dave@siteone.net>
Cc:        "FreeBSD ISP" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Hosting with multiple subnets
Message-ID:  <GIEHKBHPBGKJPNMBCOHFCEDOCAAA.troy@psknet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10101082133230.15363-100000@misery.sdf.com>

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** -----Original Message-----
** From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
** [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Tom Samplonius
** Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 12:35 AM
** To: David Lawson
** Cc: FreeBSD ISP
** Subject: Re: Hosting with multiple subnets
**
**
**
** On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, David Lawson wrote:
**
** > We setup a new hosting box running FreeBSD 4.1, we have two
** Class C's that
** > we want to use on this box but we are having problems. When ever we add
** > another subnet we lose all connection. All the other Interfaces stop
** > working.
**
**   You haven't provided any really detail on how you are "adding
** a subnet".
** I can think of several ways that could be done, and a lot more ways that
** it could be done wrong.
**

Agreed, but you could have given an example of one of the good ways to do
it.  Here's how I set up for hosting:

192.168.10.1/26 - gw address
192.168.10.8/26 - fxp0 on my web server
192.168.20.0/23 - bound to lo1 on the web server

I use zebra to implement OSPF to get the routes kicked around my network,
but it could easily be done with a static route on the gateway router.

Doing it like this keeps the arp tables small.  I don't know if it really
matters or not, but I like it like that.

I also use a script rather than rc.conf to do my bindings:

for i in `jot 256 0`
 do ifconfig lo1 inet 192.168.20.${i} netmask 0xffffffff alias
done

And, yes, I do bind the /whole/ subnet.  I won't use .0 or .255, but with a
/26, I will use all 64 addresses.

HTH,

--
  Troy Settle
  Pulaski Networks
  540.994.4254

They told me to think out of the box, but I
tripped over it, now I own my own company.




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