[3683] in linux-net channel archive
dual-segments; gateway
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joselito J Chua)
Sun Jul 14 11:27:36 1996
From: Joselito J Chua <jjchua@cs.monash.edu.au>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 13:29:22 +1000 (EST)
(1) This is a request for feedbacks/opinions/suggestions
on the dual-segment set-up illustrated in the
diagram below.
(2) My objective is to localise traffic on each
of the departmental segments of the LAN.
(3) There are three departments (D1..D3), each with its
own server (S1..S3). The PC's are connected in a
coax bus.
(4) The servers are usually used by the workstations for
NFS. The servers must be able to talk to each other
for updates, NIS, etc, and to route packets between
segments.
(5) In the future, there'll be another server P which
will be the LAN's gateway to the world. Is it
possible to set-up P such that the workstations,
even with their `illegal' IP addrs as given below,
may be able to access the web? To push the question
further a bit, is it possible to make a `node'
out of a single host address? How?
(6) Thanks in advance for your help.
(7) Diagram:
+----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| | | |
[127.1.1.1] [127.1.1.2] [127.1.1.3] [127.1.1.4]
eth1 eth1 eth1 eth1
+---------+ +---------+ +---------+ +---------+
| S1 | | S2 | | S3 | | P |
+---------+ +---------+ +---------+ +---------+
eth0 eth0 eth0 eth0
[127.1.2.1] [127.1.3.1] [127.1.4.1] [some legal IP#]
| | | |
| | | |
D1 D2 D3 world
[127.1.2.0] [127.1.3.0] [127.1.4.0]
workstations workstations workstations
-- joey
