Routing and bandwidth problem

Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz at simpaticus.com
Wed May 5 18:00:24 UTC 2004


At 11:27 5/5/2004, you wrote:
>I think you're right.  To do what you're needing to do, you need the five
>NICs.

Hey, maybe not! Going on duncan brown's comment about spending $75 per 
tenant on a small Netgear router, those do masquerading, right? So if I 
went that route, then they each have their individual subnet but *I* get 
all traffic coming from a single IP address! At that point I *can* simply 
plug all tenants into the switch, and do traffic shaping/limiting based on 
the IP address, and only use two NIC's in the central server. Eliminates 
the DHCP requirement, and I can also filter by MAC address for additional 
security.

I'm starting to like that idea more and more.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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