Multisubnet NIS slave options

["Shane B. Milburn" <milburn@panix.com>]

I have 10 subnets on which I need to run NIS. Currently we
are using our IBM S7A as the NIS slave since it has one nic
on each subnet. This works well, however, management decided
that we should replace our S7A with a NetApp 840c.

This leaves me with a problem because the NetApp can not
serve as my NIS slave. We have been trying to come up with
the best solution for a replacement NIS slave.

Here are the solutions we have come up with.

1. Quad port cards in a couple of Ultra60's or even an
   x86 box. But as the number of subnets grows I'll
   need more machines/computer room space for the NIS slaves.

2. Use the "-ypset" option on the clients to allow them
   to bind across the router. We have about 60 machines
   per subnet so I'm not sure how this would affect the
   router.

I'm wondering what other folks are doing out there for
NIS across multiple subnets?

thanks,
-shane

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Shane B. Milburn                           Email: milburn@panix.com
Sr. Systems Engineer                       GPG Key ID: 9DA907DA

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