Simple Router on FreeBSD - Which should I use?

[Bill Moran]

Danny wrote:
> I would like to setup a simple router, for the following:
> 
> Enable a 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 network talk to a 10.10.0.0 255.255.0.0 
> network, and obviously vise versa.

You'll probably just want to set gateway_enable=yes and natd_enable=yes

I believe there are a number of tutorials on this, one in the handbook?

> Now the 10.10.0.0 is tentative, so I am also wondering on a network with less 
> then 240 network nodes, if a 255.255.0.0 subnet mask would cause any 
> disadvantages, versus using a 255.255.255.0 subnet mask? 

I wouldn't recommend using 255.255.0.0.  It'll work fine for now, but if
you start to scale up you'll wish you didn't have 65536 hosts on a single
network leg.

If you're sure you'll never be scaling up, then that netmask is fine, it
won't cause any problems.  If you're sure, can I borrow your crystal ball
some time? ;)

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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