Re: Network Setup Opinion Needed- For Mr.Crucificator

[Paul Rushing <rushing shreve net>]

> Well I thought of squid bcos of caching abilities,I am sure I would not want to tighten anything as all ports will have to be open and hence NAT is very good at that,as I have tried it on my small network (one Linux Box,with one winXP Cleint).
> The Idea of having three networks is to divide the load on the Network as all requests from 50 Nodes on one network will come at Eth1 which will get NATTed thru Eth0(the Public Interface or the  ISP).By having three networks the load will get dividded between Eth1,Eth2 and Eth3.
> Is there anything else you need to know from me ?Pls let me Know, I will try to explain.
>

squid sounds like a good idea.  I'd setup squid with transparent proxying,
along with NAT for other traffic.  Since your ISP link is 128K, I see no
purpose in dividing your lan into multiple segments.   The 128K link will
be your limiting factor, the 100 mbit lan will always be waiting on that.