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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..

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