The main router is the freebsd box. Broadcasts can go out of the router to
the DSL customers, but they cant go from one customer to another because
each is a distinct bridge group.
Dennis
At 07:19 PM 10/6/99 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>I still don't fully understand where, in the picture below, is the
>"system" which you want to modify and what is instead standard stuff
>that you cannot touch...
>
>
>> >>From your description this is what i understand:
>> >
>> > customer ----[ DSL bridge ]------+----[ main router ]-- rest of net.
>> > |
>> > customer ----[ DSL bridge ]------+
>> > |
>> > repeat 150 to 900 times | shared frame relay without
>> > | multicast/broadcast support
>> > customer ----[ DSL bridge ]------+
>>
>> each DLCI is modeled as a PTP connection, so the system sees a physical
>> interface for each channel. The bridge software just sees then as bridged
>> interfaces.
>>
>> the "right" way to do it is to allocate a subnet to each bridge group, as
>> different bridge groups cant talk at the mac layer by design. Im just
>> trying to come up with an easy solution to free up addtional IP space so
>> customers with only 2 address dont have to get a whole subnet.
>
> cheers
> luigi
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