Hi. > Phew... I'm quite surprised by the number of replies I got.... :) > Subnetting is not the way to go. As stated in my previous post about the > problem. If you talk about say 1000 PCs... You allready neet to use 4 > class-C IP networks. Having to subnet all of this into 4 IP address subnet > masks, will mean that I loose roughly a minumum of 25% of all my IP > addresses. InterNIC or whoever assigns me my IP addresses is going to shoot > me. No, they would not, as it is too painless for you. They would walk right over to your house, starting to bash everything down with... erm... well, thats offtopic :)) > Erm, no offence to you or anyone on this list intended... But I cannot see > where bridging comes into the picture. As someone else also stated earlier, > this is a routing issue, and routing only. Well, I remember that one thing that is wanted to be achieved is the security of each server against the internet AND every other server. IIRC there also was the wish to insert the security conecpt transparent into the network, and again this can be done with bridges. For routing one would need to change configuration for all servers. If this is ok, then routing would be a better way, for sure. Maybe I missunderstood some of the words written in the original mail. > The hubs are internal the the client's cabinet. (See my previous post). > There is no way in that I can drop those hubs. Perhaps my previous post > made the issue a bit clearer if you want to have a look at that. Will be done. Bye, Mike - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
