randy@oetl.UUCP (Randy O'Meara) (08/26/89)
Well, I've just exceeded the maximum cable length of my thinwire
ethernet. I picked up PCroute2.0 and PCbridge hoping that I would
be able to simply extend my ethernet. PCbridge worked a treat, but
then I started thinking; ``what about future problems like this'',
and I took a look at PCroute. It looked like a simple, inexpensive
answer that would fulfill my needs for some time to come. It offered
slip support which I will need real soon.
Please bear with me as I am new to subnetting.
I have only a class C IP address of 192.34.233.x, so I decided to
grab 3 bits of the host address portion for subnetting. This will
allow 7 subnets of 29 hosts each.
I've set up a test network that consists of the following:
Net A (192.34.233.[33..62]) encompasses the following hosts:
ADDR NODE COMMENT
...33 oetl1 HP series 300 (HP-UX 6.2)
...34 oetl HP series 200 (HP-UX 5.15)
...38 snowyA AT clone w/ PCroute (1st WD interface at 280h)
...39 grumpy AT clone running PC-NFS
NET G (192.34.233.[225..254]) encompasses the following hosts:
ADDR NODE COMMENT
...225 snowyG AT clone w/ PCroute (2nd WD interface at 2a0h)
...226 sneezy VAX 11/750 (VMS 5.1) running CMU TCP/IP
Question 1: How do I (or can I) configure PCroute to pass
packets to the different subnets transparently?
I would like this to look like a single network.
I'm not running routed on any of my machines.
Question 2: Do I have to tell all of the hosts that they are
subnetting, or will PCroute deal with all of that?
Question 3: Presuming that there is an answer to Question 1,
What should I expect when I `ping' snowyA from oetl1?
What should I expect when I `ping' snowyG from oetl1?
Email or post as you see fit. Thanks.
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Randy O'Meara randy@oetl.Scf.Lockheed.Com
(408) 425-6249 ...{pyramid,leadsv,lstc}!oetl!randyskl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam) (08/27/89)
In article <479@oetl1.oetl.UUCP>, randy@oetl.Scf.Lockheed.Com wrote: >Question 1: How do I (or can I) configure PCroute to pass > packets to the different subnets transparently? > I would like this to look like a single network. > I'm not running routed on any of my machines. You can do that by enabling Proxy ARP on the Ethernet interface of each of the PC routers. >Question 2: Do I have to tell all of the hosts that they are > subnetting, or will PCroute deal with all of that? Proxy ARP would hide the subnetting details from all the hosts. >Question 3: Presuming that there is an answer to Question 1, > What should I expect when I `ping' snowyA from oetl1? > What should I expect when I `ping' snowyG from oetl1? Both ping's would work, and the ping which has to go over the SLIP line will take a bit longer. ...Sam -- Samuel Lam <skl@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> or {uunet,ubc-cs}!van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca!skl