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Re: Router/Gated config
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthias Urlichs)
Wed May 8 17:04:43 1996
From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 15:03:58 +0100
In linux.dev.net, article <hpa.318ee13a.Allah.u.Abha@freya.yggdrasil.co=
m>,
hpa@freya.yggdrasil.com (H. Peter Anvin) writes:
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> As a number of people have pointed out, that should have been
> "Correct, if you need them to talk to each other." Several IP
> networks could share a single Ethernet, but any traffic between the
> different networks would need to go through a router like traffic
> between any other two nets.
Umm, but Linux is perfectly able to talk to systems on the "other" netw=
orks
directly. Just add the appropriate routes ("route add -net 192.168.10.0=
dev
eth0").
You might not be that lucky with most other OSes, of course.
> In general, however, this is a pretty useless configuration. Split
> the net and double your bandwidth.
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Assuming that you can find a reasonable split which lets most of the
traffic stay within one network. Not everybody is that lucky.
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