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

[Ti Leggett]

We need to answer Josh ASAP. He's trying to get going and they're mildly
blocking on this.

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 13:51, Ti Leggett wrote:
> -----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
>