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by hitechritesh

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HOW DO U CONFIGURE SUBNET BRIDGING!!!
I Have 2 NETWORKS at work, First one is responsible for Internet Acess & Network Neighbourhood & Second one for R & D.
ie- Both have separate pool of IP ADD;
e.g: #1-Network has 209.249.204.xxx, #2-Networkhas 192.008.162.XXX.
Can I use a single NIC by using a switch for the 2 Networks or I have to use 2 NICS.....(I WANT THE USERS TO HAVE ACESS TO BOTH THE NETWORK AT THE SAME TIME)
Can anyone help me A.S.A.P--THANX IN ADVANCE
( I AM USING NT 4.0 FOR WKSTATION & PLANNING TO CHANGE THE OS ON THE SERVERS FROM WNT 4.0 TO SOLARIS 8.0..)

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by mckaytech

From your question, it doesn't sound like subnet bridging is what you want to do but sounds instead like a straightforward routing issue and you need either a hardware router, or a multi-homed server with 2 NIC cards. A single NIC with an ordinary switch won't do what you want.

Since you're heading towards a Solaris environment, I think you're probably going to want to either implement a hardware router or use IP routing on the Solaris box.
Of those two options, I think a router on the Internet side is the far preferable solution because you can also configure a firewall if you choose the right equipment.

paul

by cavedweller

1. Subnetting is accomplished by using a non-standard netmask so that more bits are used to define the node and less bits are used to define the network. This allows you to physically sub-divide the network internally using routers.

2. You arenot using sub-netting. You have two networks.

3. You need one NIC per net on a machine set up to route between them.

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