[Fwd: [Fwd: setting up local bridging service]]

Ti Leggett leggett at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Jun 10 13:51:52 CDT 2004


-----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Joshua Stillerman <jas at psfc.mit.edu>
> To: 'Michael E. Papka' <papka at mcs.anl.gov>, Ti Leggett <leggett at mcs.anl.gov>
> Cc: Joshua Stillerman <jas at psfc.mit.edu>
> Subject: [Fwd: setting up local bridging service]
> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:35:02 -0400
> 
> Mike and Ti --
>   We are getting kind of serious about using the AG at the PSFC.  To 
> that end, I sent this note in to ag-tech a few weeks ago.  I did not 
> hear anything back.  Could one of you either help me out, or point me 
> towards someone who can? 
> 
> Thanks !
> 
> -- josh
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Joshua Stillerman <jas at psfc.mit.edu>
> To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Cc: Joshua Stillerman <jas at psfc.mit.edu>
> Subject: setting up local bridging service
> Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 17:03:29 -0400
> 
> We are trying to set up a local bridging service adjacent to our wide
> area router so that AG traffic will be unicast on our lan.  I would
> like to get some information and advice about how to proceed.  In no
> particular order here are the questions issues we are grappling with:
>      1. Will this work ?  The plan is to set up a box which will
>         bridge all of the AG traffic for our site.  We will configure
>         our switches to allow multicast between the router and this
>         box but not between the router and the rest of our lan.
>      2. If  we do this will the bridge have to participate in all
>         venues that we might want to participate or will it only have
>         to participate in the venues we happen to be visiting at any
>         given moment.
>      3. Should we be running our own venue server on this bridge node
>         ?  Will this help or hinder us in our unicast goals ?
>      4. How good a computer to we need for this purpose ? 
>      5. Should it run windows or linux ?
> Thanks in advance for any help with these issues that you can provide.
> 
> -- josh




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