matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) (02/17/86)
I would like to solicit recommendations for a routing gateway. It would have to connect two 10MB ethernets (one on coax, the other on optical fiber). Here's what the router will have to cope with: The coax net will have a VitaLink bridge on it which connects that lan to some distant lans whose IP network numbers are different than that of the local network. The box we buy will have to be smart enough to ARP on the local lan to get the 48 bit addresses of distant hosts. The fiber optic network has a few hosts on it plus some dumb gateway boxes (derived from the Stanford gateway) which forward IP datagrams but speak no IP protocols themselves. Both local nets have some 4.2BSD hosts which are themselves routing gateways so the box we buy will either have to understand routed(8) or use some other protocol which we can get for our 4.2 machines and, I hope, the others as well. It would be a plus, but not essential, if the box can interface directly to an IMP at some future time. _____________________________________________________ Matt University crawford@anl-mcs.arpa Crawford of Chicago ihnp4!oddjob!matt