Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 13:46:16 -0400 From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ARPs on a bridge Message-ID: <199910071847.OAA14418@etinc.com> In-Reply-To: <199910061819.TAA13766@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> References: <199910061702.NAA10711@etinc.com>
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The main router is the freebsd box. Broadcasts can go out of the router to the DSL customers, but they cant go from one customer to another because each is a distinct bridge group. Dennis At 07:19 PM 10/6/99 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >I still don't fully understand where, in the picture below, is the >"system" which you want to modify and what is instead standard stuff >that you cannot touch... > > >> >>From your description this is what i understand: >> > >> > customer ----[ DSL bridge ]------+----[ main router ]-- rest of net. >> > | >> > customer ----[ DSL bridge ]------+ >> > | >> > repeat 150 to 900 times | shared frame relay without >> > | multicast/broadcast support >> > customer ----[ DSL bridge ]------+ >> >> each DLCI is modeled as a PTP connection, so the system sees a physical >> interface for each channel. The bridge software just sees then as bridged >> interfaces. >> >> the "right" way to do it is to allocate a subnet to each bridge group, as >> different bridge groups cant talk at the mac layer by design. Im just >> trying to come up with an easy solution to free up addtional IP space so >> customers with only 2 address dont have to get a whole subnet. > > cheers > luigi > >-----------------------------------+------------------------------------- > Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione > http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa > TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) > > http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ngc99/ >==== First International Workshop on Networked Group Communication ==== >-----------------------------------+------------------------------------- > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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