unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) wrote in message news:<coei4p$h9q$1@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca>...
> I find this whole thing a bit weird. You are taking some ancient computers,
> and then want them to serve as high speed servers. You want a 1GHz
> connection when your computer is not capable of handling 1GHz data
> transfers internally.
>
> What data from computer 1? Computer 1 is a slow computer. What kind of high
> throughput is it going to handle?
>
>
>
> subhas85@gmail.com (Avi) writes:
>
> ]Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@iki.fi.NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message news:<uVkqd.163$Rj5.39@read3.inet.fi>...
> ]> Avi wrote:
> ]> > i currently have a network containing about 6 comptuers, i recently
> ]> > aquired 2 additional computers, a 450mhz and a 500mhz, my plan is to
> ]> > make data servers out of them. However, i would like to have the
> ]> > 450mhz computer operate as my router, since my microsoft router (shit)
> ]> > seems to keep droping my connection every now and then. The other
> ]> > computer will be incharge of other high demanding processes which will
> ]> > involve data from computer #1. So what i want is a network according
> ]> > to the following diagram.
> ]> >
> ]> > [cable internet]<>------>|comp #1|<>----------<>|comp #2|
> ]> > | |
> ]> > | |
> ]> > |------<>|SWITCH|<>----|
> ]> > | | |
> ]> > |comp|---------<>| | |<>---------|comp#3|
> ]> > |
> ]> > |comp|
> ]> >
> ]> > *note that comp1 has 3 NICs; one 10/100mbps for the internet cable
> ]> > modem, one 10/100mbps to the switch for other comps to access, and one
> ]> > 10/100/1000mbps for direct connection to comp2, which i would like to
> ]> > be a gigabit connection, for data flexibility. I am running Fedora
> ]> > Core 3 on both comp1 and comp2. A problem that i see rising is,
> ]> > suppose comp1 wants to talk to a comp3, would the data path look like
> ]> > this,
> ]> >
> ]> > [comp1]-->[comp2]--->[switch]--->[comp3] or like this,
> ]> > [comp1]--->[switch]---->[comp3] ?
> ]> >
> ]> > detail instructions including commands on doing this would be
> ]> > appreciated.
>
> ]what i would like is for comp1 to be a router and provide internet for
> ]the entire network but also act as a file server. comp2 is a
>
> Why would you use your slowest computer as a file server?
>
> ]fileserver but in addition it acts download 'server', mostly
> ]downloading torrents as well as sharing them, the reason i choose to
> ]have these services on comp2 instead of comp1 is because just incase
> ]comp2 crashes because of the downloads or other processes, my
> ]network's internet will not be down. comp2 shares files to other
>
> You have set it up so everything goes through computer 1. Why would 2 crash
> before 1?
>
> ]computers within the internal network. the reason i would like all
> ]internal computers to access comp2 via the switch is so that it
> ]doesn't create a additional load on comp1. if u could provide
> ]appropriate commands for iptables that would allow this routing to
> ]happen it would be highly appreciated.
>
> iptables are irrelevant. It is the routing table which tells the data where
> to go.
>
> man route
> or
> man ip

k comp1 and comp2 are gonna be connected using a 100mbps, i just want
a direct connection between comp1 and comp2 so if data transfer
happens between the two machines, it doesn't affect the entire
networks speed