Again the problem is not the 50 ip addresses, but how they are connected. If they are all in the same area you have the problem of collisions and the problem of increased traffic due to updating the routing tables for all 50 nodes. Where as if you have smaller areas, one computer will be arbitrated as the router in each area and the collisions will be less because of the smaller areas. Having many computers in the same LAN is always a problem with Ethernet. If you have many computers in the same area then token ring is better because of the reduction of the collisions, but token ring does not solve the routing table problem.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Paul Rushing > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:04 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Network Setup Opinion Needed > > > I have set up a Linux Box with NAT/MASQ, and Squid as an Internet > server for my local LAN with one system on a trial basis and I see that > the performance has been great.However I am apprehensive about the way the > way traffice and loadbalancing will be hadled by Linux box as there will > be 50 Machines banging in with requests,hence I have thought of two ways > to connect,pls have alook below and pass your valuable comments. I have a > 128 Kbps leased line coming thru a router. > > Option1 > > 50 Windows Cleints with IP Adressese 192.168.0.1-50 GW 192.168.0.100 > > Linux Server Eth0 with Ip Adress 212.72.11.89 GW 212.72.11.201 > > Linux server Eth1 with Ip Address 192.168.0.100 GW 192.168.0.100 > > > > so I will use Ip NAT/MASQ techniques where all requests on Eth1 > will be forwarded to Eth0. > > You don't mention any specs on the linux box, so it's difficult to say if > that machine will handle the traffic for 50 clients or not.. Linux can > certainly do it, if you have a reasonable box with adequate ram this setup > should not be a problem. To utilize your extra ip addresses you can > assign them as aliases to eth0 and then seperate your NAT/MASQ across > several outgoing ip addresses. You would probably want at least 2 ip > addresses on the external eth0 interface... (depends on how much traffic > you expect to > have) (your gateway statement above on eth1 is not correct) > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
