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Re: Routing vs. bridging; was Re (4): Linux hub



On Sb, 14 mai 11, 22:14:44, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote:
> 
> What are the greatest advantages in bridging eth0 and eth1 rather 
> than routing through Dalton to Carnot?  Bridging will need some 
> additional software, bridge-utils; routing should be possible 
> without adding software.

AFAIK the additional software is just to activate the bridging stuff in 
the kernel. I doubt you will notice any overhead (if any), but IMVHO, as 
long as you don't have any compelling reasons to keep two networks more 
or less separate it's just simpler to bridge them.

Regards,
Andrei
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