My current terminal servers use proxy arp'ing. This means that there are
around 150 entries in my router's arp table... I'm sure it wasn't
designed to handle that number of nodes in the arp table, and I don't
think it would appreciate the addition of 46 more from my incoming PM3...
What I was planning on doing was dividing up the terminal server ports in
to either /27's or /26's depending on whether it is a 32 or 64 port
terminal server. That would mean chopping off 2 ports from each to make
them fit the network size, but one of those ports is used as a console
port anyway, and address space is tight anyway so I'd rather lose the
extra port.
The terminal servers themselves would reside on a common network with my
router. As I don't have a switched network, I will probably end up
putting the PM3 on a separate, low traffic network that is just used for
my personal ISDN router.
What I would then do is have each terminal server broadcast a route back
to my router saying which /27 or /26 it is responsible for. This would
be done using OSPF (for the PM3) and RIP2 (for everythign else).
I know my existing terminal servers can handle this, and I assume the PM3
can as well. I just wanted to check before I waste the time taking the
system apart only to find out that I missed something :-)
Evan
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