On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:13:24AM -0500, Steven Bellovin wrote:
I know nothing of how to do this on a Catalyst; for PCs, my own guess is that you're looking far too high-end. If the issue is relaying to the outside, I suspect that a small, dedicated Soekris or the like will do all you need -- there's no point in switching traffic faster than your DSL lines can run. I'm not doing load-balancing, but all traffic from my house to the outside world (I have a cable modem) goes through a Soekris 4801, and I can download large files from my office at 12-13M bps. Further, since the Soekris is bridging some networks, its interfaces are in promiscuous mode, so the box is seeing every packet on my home LAN.
Really? If it's connected to a switch, I'd expect it to only see broadcast/multicast/unknown destination MACs, as well as traffic actually flowing through the Soekris. -- Brett