[tech] Routing from mermaid & mussel

David Manchester mustang at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Fri May 26 14:05:44 WST 2000


> > On May 26, Duncan Sargeant scratched in indelible ink :
> 
> > Ahem, yes.  My brain was just getting to that bit - the default route
> > on waix breaks outgoing connections which aren't routed through waix,
> > so we need to individually route those.  This doesn't just include
> > 130.95.*, but also cygnus, bits of it.net.au, and the other
> > universities.
> > 
> > This is why we need a router device in betwen UCC and UWA which can do
> > this sort of munging.
> > 
> will the bridge that we currently have installed somwewhere in the guild
> do this?

A bridge is a bridge, not a router.

This is something we need to do on the router.
With a bit of luck I will slap the new bits from Leighton's boss into one
of our rackmount cases this weekend.
With the new NICs and such we'll have a half reasonable machine for the router.

Cheers
/dave
-- 
           David Manchester, Workstation herder and USEnet voyeur.
 "The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a
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