Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:51:50 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Danny <bchadmin@eagleroaming.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple Router on FreeBSD - Which should I use? Message-ID: <408449F6.2020406@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040419190652.M88645@eagleroaming.com> References: <20040419190652.M88645@eagleroaming.com>
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Danny wrote: > I would like to setup a simple router, for the following: > > Enable a 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 network talk to a 10.10.0.0 255.255.0.0 > network, and obviously vise versa. You'll probably just want to set gateway_enable=yes and natd_enable=yes I believe there are a number of tutorials on this, one in the handbook? > Now the 10.10.0.0 is tentative, so I am also wondering on a network with less > then 240 network nodes, if a 255.255.0.0 subnet mask would cause any > disadvantages, versus using a 255.255.255.0 subnet mask? I wouldn't recommend using 255.255.0.0. It'll work fine for now, but if you start to scale up you'll wish you didn't have 65536 hosts on a single network leg. If you're sure you'll never be scaling up, then that netmask is fine, it won't cause any problems. If you're sure, can I borrow your crystal ball some time? ;) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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