Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 18:40:23 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Holling <myke@ees.com> To: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> Cc: Derek Jewett <djewett@snowcrest.net>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ethernet segment spliting Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9902221839440.310-100000@phluffy.fks.bt> In-Reply-To: <19990223132752.B6930@caamora.com.au>
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> i don;t think so derek, the best way to describe it is that i have one class c > addr and i wnat to use this to setup a 'wan' with just this one addr space. > problem being that thier are 3 (at teh moment) locations that are > gepgraphically disperced and can only be reached by ppp over telephone lines. > > to tie this together i ned to setup several bridges over which teh remote > network segments would communicate. at least this is how i see it from what > i've managed to understand about the diferences between ethernet 'bridges' and > 'routers'. a class c would loose far too much if it were to be subneted. This sounds more like a VPN setup. I don't think attempting to "bridge" ethernet over a WAN link would work very well. - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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