From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 7:38:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A96A37B402 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 07:38:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0AFc6X57690; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:38:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Networking Question. References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 10 Jan 2001 10:38:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: agoodloe@gradient.cis.upenn.edu's message of "9 Jan 2001 23:17:49 +0100" Message-ID: <447l43mn8i.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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