Router help request

[MonMotha]

Sorry to reply to myself, looks like I got my threads mixed up here 
(pretty easy to do when you use Mozilla as a mail client :).  The below 
applies to "whenever"'s mail.  Dunno what's up with beesond001's network 
without more info.

Ben, if you can't figure it out from here, please feel free to drop me a 
message at monmotha at indy.rr.com.

--MonMotha

MonMotha wrote:

> I think for his application, this would be a bit of overkill...  All 
> we're talking about is 3 physical subnets, two of them acting logically 
> as one (I'm hoping he's using proxy-arp on his ppp connection, otherwise 
> that's probably the problem).  In this case, since all you have is one 
> internal IP subnet (the private one) and the rest of the world, we're 
> talking about 3 routes (add one in for loopback).  These routes are 
> likely not to change (unless he does something drastic like renumber his 
>  internal LAN), so dynamic routing daemons wouldn't be of much use here 
> and could very well just complicate matters more.
> 
> --MonMotha
> 
> Brian Chee wrote:
> 
>> Here's one of the BIG issues of getting a plain vanilla
>> linux/bsd/solaris/etc box to be a router....they normally don't talk 
>> routing
>> protocols like RIP/OSPF/BGP/etc.....so you literally have to create a 
>> static
>> route both in the unix'ish box and in the upstream router.
>>
> ....
> 
> 
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