From owner-freebsd-net Sun Nov 8 22:15:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA15506 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 22:15:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA15499 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 22:15:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id FAA27210; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 05:14:23 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199811090414.FAA27210@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: router/bridge question To: jkf@calweb.com (Jason K. Fritcher) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 05:14:23 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jason K. Fritcher" at Nov 8, 98 08:48:39 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > machine, I wanted to know from others how well it bridges, and routes at the > same time. it should work, slightly suboptimally at the moment (i.e. it puts all ethernet interfaces in promisc mode). I have some mods to let you do bridging only on clusters of interfaces, but don't know when they will be ready for commit. In the meantime, if the above is a problem for you, the best approach would be to skip your "external" interface in the bridging loop. > For the internal network, I am going to be using a dual-port SMC card using > the de driver. For the internet link, I am most likely going to be using an > Intel EtherExpress. Looking at the comments at the top of bridge.c, it says > to give only one interface an address. If this machine is also going to > route between two networks, I am going to need to assign an address to the > outside interface, and an address to the inside pair, but I have absolutely correct: one address to the card connection to the outside, one address to one of the cards connected to the inside. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message