From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 28 13:30:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A863A37B400 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:30:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from sprintmail.com (sdn-ar-006njnbruP185.dialsprint.net [158.252.44.225]) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05594; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:30:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3A2423D8.4AFBA7D9@sprintmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:30:00 -0500 From: Eric Rivas X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Akshay Lamba Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bridge Help References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Akshay Lamba wrote: > > Dear Eric, > Thanks for your mail. I already did that and.... it works for one of my > FreeBSD systems... but does'nt seem to work for the other one. Are the ones on the network using the private IP address (ones in rfc1918, I think)? If so, you may want to look at natd (or if it's a dialup account, the -nat option for ppp). Beyond that I have no clue, maybe someone else might pick this one up. > > Regards, > Akshay Lamba > > >From: Eric Rivas > >To: Akshay Lamba > >CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >Subject: Re: Bride Help > >Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:09:46 -0500 > > > > > Akshay Lamba wrote: > > > > > > Hi!! I am a graduate student at university of michigan. I have now > > > been able to get my > > > server up but with a few gliches. I have a freebsd server with 2 > > > network > > > cards. I need that data packets should be interchanges between the 2 > > > cards > > > so that the workstations (attached to one of the cards through a hub) > > > can > > > access the internet attached to the other card. Now, I did some > > > reading on > > > it and it seems i have to create a "bridge" between the 2 cards. I > > > just > > > wanted to confirm from you if this is right. Also.. the documentation > > > gives > > > the following lines about creating a bridge. > > > >I think you might just want to add this to your /etc/rc.conf (create it > >if it doesn't exist): > > > >gateway_enable="YES" > > > >This will allow packets to pass between your two cards. > > > >Hope I was helpful. > > > > > ---------------------------------------------- > > > 16.3.3.2. Kernel configuration changes > > > To enable kernel support for bridging, add the > > > > > > options BRIDGE > > > > > > statement to your kernel configuration file, and rebuild your kernel. > > > ----------------------------------------------- > > > > > > Could you explain to me what it means. My main questions are:- > > > 1. Which is the kernel configuration file. > > > 2. How do i rebuild by kernel and then get it up and running. > > > > > > Thanks a lot of your help. > > > > > > Regards. > > > Akshay Lamba > > > >-- > >Eric J. Rivas > >WWW: http://home.sprintmail.com/~rivas45/ > >ICQ: 61930546 > > > >"The right to revolt has sources deep in our history." > > -- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas > > _____________________________________________________________________________________ > Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com -- Eric J. Rivas WWW: http://home.sprintmail.com/~rivas45/ ICQ: 61930546 "The right to revolt has sources deep in our history." -- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message