On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:01:34PM -0500, Michael D. Spence wrote:
> History:
> 
> I've got a ThinWire network connected to my NetBSD system since  ThinWire
> interfaces are increasingly hard to find and don't support Fast Ethernet.
> Since I just bought a new box which only has a 10BaseT connecter for 10/100
> Ethernet, I decided to start upgrading so I bought an 8-port switch and a
> 10/100 LinkSys PCI NIC to go into NetBSD.  But some of the devices on the
> ThinNet have to stay there so they'll have to stay on the old 10Base2 card.
> 
> Here's what I have now:
> 
> Cable Modem
>      |
>     (ex0)
>     NetBSD system
>       |    +-(ep0)----------ThinWire, local systems in
>       |                  assigned subnet 164.179.157.64/26
>       |
>       +-(wi0)----------Wireless (192.168.1.1/24)
> 
> Here's what I will have:
> 
> Cable Modem
>      |
>     (ex0)
>     NetBSD system
>     | |    +-(ep0)----------ThinWire, systems that have to
>     | |                      stay on ThinWire, in
>     | |                  assigned subnet 164.179.157.64/26
>     | |
>     | +-(wi0)----------Wireless (192.168.1.1/16 subnet)
>     |
>     +--(new Linksys card)--- Switch -- (192.168.2.1/16 subnet)
> 
> So the question is, should I use the new bridge driver and
> bridge ep0-wi0-and the LinkSys (whatever it is)?
> 
> Or should I just fiddle the routing a little more like I did
> for wi0 and ep0.

Well, this is probably a matter of personnal preferences.
bridge would probably make is easier, and allow boxes to be moved from
old thinwire to new 100baseT network easily.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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