Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 08:00:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall tcpip.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907290759080.18348-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <199907290226.WAA11541@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:01:21 -0400 (EDT), Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com> said: > > > Not when I tell my switch that port 1 is VLAN 1 and port 2 is VLAN 2. > > Port 1 will never see port 2's traffic. > > It's generally considered something less than manageable to assign a > separate /30 to every single machine in your network. Granted, I > for one have the address space to burn, but most people I know don't. > :-) > > wollman@khavrinen$ rsh mintaka fgrep ' A ' /etc/named.db/lcs.db | wc -l > 4156 > > Oops... my switches only support 256 router interfaces. I guess I > can't use your idea to increase my address-space utilization from 0.5% > to 2.1%. Oh well.... I'm not talking about IP level, I'm talking about layer 2. I'll repeat my previous statement: If I put two different machines on seperate VLANs on my switch it doesn't matter what network protocol they run, they will never see each other. VLANs are not dependent on subnets. -- - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - PS. maybe we're talking about different subjects here. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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