[nflug] Bridging two Subnets (Linux Router Project?)

vlok stone vlokstone at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 14 11:05:55 EDT 2007


This may be what you're looking for
http://www.vyatta.com/
should be able to handle it just fine.

--- justin.bennett at dynabrade.com wrote:

> Hey Folk,
> 
>         I have an increasing situation that I'm
> looking to be proactive 
> about. I have a class C internal network at our
> office here, that due to 
> growth  is running out of IPs, it's a 192.168.x.0/24
> situation. I've come 
> up with two possible solutions, fell free to suggest
> others, it doesn't 
> have to be a free solution, just production quality.
> 
> 1. Drop the subnet mast to 255.255.252.0 or less,
> This gives me more IPs, 
> and makes no physical changes to the network, but
> requires me to 
> reconfigure 250+ pcs, servers, VPNs, VPN routes on
> remote sites, ect. This 
> is not really desirable. 
> 
> 2. Create a new 192.168.(x+1).0 subnet on a separate
> physical network and 
> bridge the two with a router.  All new network drops
> would get plugged 
> into this subnet.
> 
>         The second solution is more appealing to me
> as it doesn't require 
> changing all the existing devices, except adding a
> route to a firewall or 
> two. The problem is I don't think I'm looking at a
> Cisco router in this 
> situation, I would want probably 2 GB interfaces one
> for the existing 
> subnet and one for the new and just have it route
> between the two, I don't 
> want any packet filtering, firewalling, ect. Just
> simple static routing. I 
> don't seem to find GB ethernet in the cisco routers
> unless you buy 
> something modular and add cards, then It has way too
> many features l don't 
> need and starts to get pricey. I know I can do the
> same with a Linux box 
> with 2 cheap GB cards, even with an out of the box
> Red Hat dist.  There 
> used to be a Linux Router Project but looks like
> it's no longer 
> maintained. 
> 
>         Is anyone had a similar situation? How have
> you handled it. Is 
> there a better router / hardware device that I don't
> know of that does 
> what I want?
> 
> Thanks
> Justin
> 
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