In my Home network I have several routers, although my main router/firewall is an ipcop machine. I noticed after upgrading some of my wireless routers ( I have 3...) to DD-WRT I have the option to disable routing. I'm wondering if this will mean that IPCOP will do all the routing throughout the network. I would assume that going through 3 routers, all with routing enabled would affect latency. If anyone has any good links to information on this topic please post them, I haven't been able to find much info on google so far.
I'll give you an example so you can see how my network is laid out between the internet and my computers in my workshop.
<-------------------------------House-------------------------------><----------------------Shed--------------------------->
Comcast ---> IPCOP ---> TP-Link TL-WDR3600 ---> 8p Gig Switch ---> Procurve 2650 ---> PC
This example is an extreme case but I am limited on Gbit ports so I end up with lots of network devices between here and there. There isn't an extraordinary number of computers on my network as I imagine the answer would be different if I was laying out a huge network. Every device is on the same subnet (.5), and ip addresses are forwarded by the DD-WRT routers.
I'll give you an example so you can see how my network is laid out between the internet and my computers in my workshop.
<-------------------------------House-------------------------------><----------------------Shed--------------------------->
Comcast ---> IPCOP ---> TP-Link TL-WDR3600 ---> 8p Gig Switch ---> Procurve 2650 ---> PC
This example is an extreme case but I am limited on Gbit ports so I end up with lots of network devices between here and there. There isn't an extraordinary number of computers on my network as I imagine the answer would be different if I was laying out a huge network. Every device is on the same subnet (.5), and ip addresses are forwarded by the DD-WRT routers.