Re: VLANs, routing, multicast and HP switches, oh my...

2010-06-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Jun-14 13:17:06 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >We'll be simulating installations of our software and hardware for >customer installations that have WANs between sites, with several >complementary applications, including a multicast app that is critical >to the whole effort. While it's a bit much

Re: VLANs, routing, multicast and HP switches, oh my...

2010-06-14 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 05:41, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 06/12/10 23:22, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> Again - they'll be putting up to 200 busy machines on each subnet. It >> seems reasonable to limit the broadcast domains with VLANs. > > I know that everyone begins to talk about "limiting the broadcast > d

Re: VLANs, routing, multicast and HP switches, oh my...

2010-06-14 Thread Ivan Voras
On 06/12/10 23:22, Kurt Buff wrote: > Again - they'll be putting up to 200 busy machines on each subnet. It > seems reasonable to limit the broadcast domains with VLANs. I know that everyone begins to talk about "limiting the broadcast domains" when talking about VLANs sooner or later but I have

Re: VLANs, routing, multicast and HP switches, oh my...

2010-06-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 07:02, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 06/09/10 22:35, Kurt Buff wrote: >> All, >> Now, however, the subnet on fxp4 is going to have an HP 2610 switch >> attached to it, and they want to hang multiple subnets from that >> interface. > > ... which doesn't necessarily translate to VL

Re: VLANs, routing, multicast and HP switches, oh my...

2010-06-10 Thread Ivan Voras
On 06/09/10 22:35, Kurt Buff wrote: > All, > > I have in place a router that I built with FreeBSD (currently it's an > i386 build - 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #1: Mon Jul 28 18:59:13 PDT > 2008) on a whitebox with 3 dual-port NICs. > > the relevant data from /etc/rc.conf: > > defaultrout

VLANs, routing, multicast and HP switches, oh my...

2010-06-09 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I have in place a router that I built with FreeBSD (currently it's an i386 build - 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #1: Mon Jul 28 18:59:13 PDT 2008) on a whitebox with 3 dual-port NICs. the relevant data from /etc/rc.conf: defaultrouter="192.168.27.1" gateway_enable="YES" hostn