[120679] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Consumer-grade dual-homed connectivity options?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett Frankenberger)
Wed Dec 30 18:09:01 2009
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:08:25 -0600
From: Brett Frankenberger <rbf+nanog@panix.com>
To: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <408FE52C-BF6A-4AA3-B30C-8E414948A932@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Paul Bennett <paul.w.bennett@gmail.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:13:24AM -0500, Steven Bellovin wrote:
>
> I know nothing of how to do this on a Catalyst; for PCs, my own guess
> is that you're looking far too high-end. If the issue is relaying to
> the outside, I suspect that a small, dedicated Soekris or the like
> will do all you need -- there's no point in switching traffic faster
> than your DSL lines can run. I'm not doing load-balancing, but all
> traffic from my house to the outside world (I have a cable modem)
> goes through a Soekris 4801, and I can download large files from my
> office at 12-13M bps. Further, since the Soekris is bridging some
> networks, its interfaces are in promiscuous mode, so the box is
> seeing every packet on my home LAN.
Really? If it's connected to a switch, I'd expect it to only see
broadcast/multicast/unknown destination MACs, as well as traffic
actually flowing through the Soekris.
-- Brett
