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Date:      Thu, 30 Mar 2000 01:01:01 -0500
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        Julian Zottl <julianz@vsl.cua.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netmask problems...
Message-ID:  <20000330010101.F17852@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003291614530.28264-100000@gateway.vsl.cua.edu>; from julianz@vsl.cua.edu on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 04:19:03PM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003291614530.28264-100000@gateway.vsl.cua.edu>

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On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 04:19:03PM -0500, Julian Zottl wrote:
> Hey all, I'm setting up a firewall with the following:
> 111.222.333.1  111.222.333.2           111.222.333.3
> Router      ->    1st NIC  (FreeBSD Box)     2nd NIC -> Switch
> I've done this where the 1st and 2nd nic are on different subnets, but
> when they are on the same subnet my usual practices are not working!  What
> netmask do I need for the NIC's and do I need to change any of the
> routing?  TIA,

Julian, Julian, Julian. We've been throught this. Trying to do routing
between different physical subnets that are one logical subnet is not
a good thing. For the above, you would want to do bridging, not
routing.

111.222.333.1 --- 111.222.333.2             (no IP) --- Switch 
   Router              NIC      FreeBSD Box   NIC         |-- 111.222.333.0/24

There are other options like using a RFC1918 address space on
one subnet if you really like to route.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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