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Special Forums IP Networking How many hosts per subnet Post 302458669 by Corona688 on Friday 1st of October 2010 11:25:59 AM
Old 10-01-2010
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Originally Posted by Aia
Understandable! However I was under the impression that the hosts of a segment would be constantly broadcasting among them even if not much is actually "user generated traffic". Do I have the wrong impression?
Whether their traffic is all or even mostly broadcast depends entirely on what they're doing. If something's spewing broadcast video or disk images etc. to the network you'll obviously have a lot of broadcast. If you've got a hundred people running web browsers the traffic will be almost all non-broadcast. (Yes, there will be little bits of broadcast all the time, ARP requests and DHCP traffic and service announcements and all that, but these shouldn't amount to much.) Lacking my crystal ball, I really can't say whether you can put that many hosts on a subnet for what they're doing.
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Nevertheless, I wish to not miss the opportunity to ask you: by what rules could I come to the conclusion that the network is heavy on traffic?
The amount of available bandwidth versus the amount of used bandwidth, both between hosts and upstream/downstream.

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SHOREWALL6-ROUTESTO(5)						  [FIXME: manual]					    SHOREWALL6-ROUTESTO(5)

NAME
routestopped - The Shorewall6 file that governs what traffic flows through the firewall while it is in 'stopped' state. SYNOPSIS
/etc/shorewall6/routestopped DESCRIPTION
This file is used to define the hosts that are accessible when the firewall is stopped or is being stopped. When shorewall6-shell is being used, the file also determines those hosts that are accessible when the firewall is in the process of being [re]started. The columns in the file are as follows (where the column name is followed by a different name in parentheses, the different name is used in the alternate specification syntax). INTERFACE - interface Interface through which host(s) communicate with the firewall HOST(S) - [-|address[,address]...] Optional comma-separated list of IP/subnet addresses. If your kernel and ip6tables include iprange match support, IP address ranges are also allowed. If left empty or supplied as "-", 0.0.0.0/0 is assumed. OPTIONS - [-|option[,option]...] An optional comma-separated list of options. The order of the options is not important but the list can contain no embedded whitespace. The currently-supported options are: routeback Set up a rule to ACCEPT traffic from these hosts back to themselves. Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.9, this option is automatically set if routeback is specified in shorewall6-interfaces[1] (5) or if the rules compiler detects that the interface is a bridge. source Allow traffic from these hosts to ANY destination. Without this option or the dest option, only traffic from this host to other listed hosts (and the firewall) is allowed. If source is specified then routeback is redundant. dest Allow traffic to these hosts from ANY source. Without this option or the source option, only traffic from this host to other listed hosts (and the firewall) is allowed. If dest is specified then routeback is redundant. critical Allow traffic between the firewall and these hosts throughout '[re]start', 'stop' and 'clear'. Specifying critical on one or more entries will cause your firewall to be "totally open" for a brief window during each of those operations. Examples of where you might want to use this are: o 'Ping' nodes with heartbeat. o LDAP server(s) if you use LDAP Authentication o NFS Server if you have an NFS-mounted root filesystem. Note The source and dest options work best when used in conjunction with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes in shorewall6.conf[2](5). EXAMPLE
Example 1: #INTERFACE HOST(S) OPTIONS eth2 2002:ce7c:92b4::/64 eth0 2002:ce7c:92b4:1::/64 br0 - routeback eth3 - source FILES
/etc/shorewall6/routestopped SEE ALSO
http://shorewall.net/starting_and_stopping_shorewall.htm http://shorewall.net/configuration_file_basics.htm#Pairs shorewall6(8), shorewall6-accounting(5), shorewall6-actions(5), shorewall6-blacklist(5), shorewall6-hosts(5), shorewall6-interfaces(5), shorewall6-maclist(5), shoewall6-netmap(5),shorewall6-params(5), shorewall6-policy(5), shorewall6-providers(5), shorewall6-rtrules(5), shorewall6-rules(5), shorewall6.conf(5), shorewall6-secmarks(5), shorewall6-tcclasses(5), shorewall6-tcdevices(5), shorewall6-tcrules(5), shorewall6-tos(5), shorewall6-tunnels(5), shorewall6-zones(5) NOTES
1. shorewall6-interfaces http://www.shorewall.net/manpages6/shorewall6-interfaces.html 2. shorewall6.conf http://www.shorewall.net/manpages6/shorewall6.conf.html [FIXME: source] 06/28/2012 SHOREWALL6-ROUTESTO(5)
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