Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 23:25:02 +1100 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: Derek Jewett <djewett@snowcrest.net>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ethernet segment spliting Message-ID: <19990223232502.A8361@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <001c01be5edb$a5966be0$5914c9cf@bsharp.dubakella.tcoe.k12.ca.us>; from Derek Jewett on Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 07:21:13PM -0800 References: <001c01be5edb$a5966be0$5914c9cf@bsharp.dubakella.tcoe.k12.ca.us>
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derek, On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 07:21:13PM -0800, Derek Jewett wrote: > Does sound like a ppp connection to the three "outstations" would be best > fitting in your case. I belive you could just set up a ppp server on your > central segment, and the outstations would be able to dial into the central > network and "bridge" packets accross the line(s)... good luck! if teh three 'outstations' were just that i'd be home and hosed .. grin, the 'probelm' is that they are not one host dialups. it sorta looks like this .. i'm at the center of a cart wheel, with the spokes being a 'route' to teh stattalite 'outstations', each of those being a cluster of two or three indepemdant hosts on an ethernet segment of some sort. more i think about it, more its looking like an isp type of thingie. i'm going to be reading up on tun and ppp and natd to see how it can be fitted together .. this natd thing has got me perplexed, why go to teh trouble of converting 'fake' ip addrs to real addrs, sure i've got a few to burn and i understand why wes suggested using natd and teh rfc1953 (sory i may have this wrong) addr blocks. just as an aside .. is this sort of common in freebsd, or have i stumbled into a part of network theory that isn't to often traveled ? regards and thx jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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