Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 01:03:05 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "Dongre, Prashant" <ppd2@exchange.co.westchester.ny.us>, "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Freebsd routing Message-ID: <359B3EB9.13728473@whistle.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980701234804.18536J-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White wrote: > > > What you really need is an Ethernet switch and to break up your network > into multiple segments. Hang the mainframe off one switch port and some > of your hubs off the others. > > > Is it possible to have a FreeBSD system with two network interfaces > > bridging mainframe and the rest of the network statically routing IP > > packets from on side to another. one side is the whole network and other > > side are couple of mainframe ethernet interfaces (not more than 4). > > FreeBSD doesn't bridge but it does route; this may mean changing the IP > of your mainframe to another so you can differentiate the subnets. > I'm not sure put I THINK that it can be convinced to do this using proxy-arp in particular there is some proxyarp-all option that Garrett was talking about that may do this.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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