On Tuesday, 04/05/2005 at 08:27 EST, Harold Grovesteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a purely switch based networking configuration, mutliple subnets may > be defined on a single broadcast domain even if it is accessed by a > single access port (non-VLAN). The default gateway would need to be > configured with addresses for both subnets and for devices on the same > broadcast domain with different subnet addresses to communicate they > would need to go through the default gateway. Admittedly, this violates > the rule of thumb of one subnet per broadcast domain but is supported by > the technology. > > What is the source of this restriction?
There isn't really a restriction, but it requires an ... unnatural ... configuration, liable to cause more problems than it solves. The problem areas will be getting it past the network security folks and routing. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
