Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:55:38 -0500 (EST) From: Alwyn Goodloe <agoodloe@gradient.cis.upenn.edu> To: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Networking Question. Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0101101451480.1497-100000@gradient.cis.upenn.edu> In-Reply-To: <447l43mn8i.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>
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Your solution of Not enabling net.inet.ip.fw.enable sounds like it would keep machines outside of the private network from mistaking the private network's box as a router but the box would no longer act as a router for the local network. I may be misunderstanding something. Alwyn agoodloe@gradient.cis.upenn.edu On 10 Jan 2001, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > agoodloe@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Alwyn Goodloe) writes: > > > I have a little private network (you know 192....) which runs great. Its > > a rally small testbed with several machines strung together, two routers > > (need this due to the nature of our tests) and a server and several clients. > > Since they are all hooked together by direct connections I don't even > > run routed. The question is the following: I want to add in a ethernet > > card that connects a router to the regular network. What I don't want is > > for any other machines to mistake me for the system router. Is the fact that > > I'm not running a routing protocol sufficient. > > Not enabling net.inet.ip.fw.enable should be enough, assuming I > understand the question correctly. Normally it would have to be > enabled through setting gateway_enable in the rc.conf file; don't do > that. Whether you're running protocols to distribute routes is > irrelevant. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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