From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 1 9:54:25 2003 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 947EC37B401 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 09:54:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage-american.com (adsl-65-71-135-139.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CD8443F75 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 09:54:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (sagea.sage-american [192.168.0.3]) by sage-american.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h21HroFU028572 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 11:53:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20030301115349.01df7978@sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 11:53:49 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: Hooking 2 Networks Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=4.5 tests=SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.44-sageamerules_v1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have two separate connections to the Internet with static IPs and two separate networks. Each network has an internal FBSD Gateway/NAT/caching DNS connected to the backbone & each have a separate LAN subnet (192.168.0.x on one and 10.0.0.x on another). The default router for each LAN is its internal Gateway machine, so they know which GW to use to get out to the Net. Each also operates web & mail servers. Each have their own switches from the Gateway machine cabled to the servers/workstations. I would like to hook the two networks together via the switches & I assUme I do this by running a cable from the one switch to the uplink on the other....??? Is my assumption correct? I would like to have all machines have direct & fast access via the internal NW cables for NFS access. As simple as this sounds, I have not found anything anywhere about hooking 2 networks together and if there is any problems. Guess I could just hook up and try it, but rather double-check with some one who has a similar setup -- or point me to a URL (I've googled, visited the networking and router sites - none talk about directly hooking 2 NWs). Appreciate any replies..... thanks! Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message