From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Feb 12 13:01:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00714 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 13:01:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.ruhrgebiet.individual.net (in-ruhr.ruhr.de [141.39.224.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00706 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 13:01:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bs@devnull.ruhr.de) Received: (from admin@localhost) by mail.ruhrgebiet.individual.net (8.8.5-r-beta/8.8.5) with UUCP id VAA20072; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 21:34:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from rm.devnull.ruhr.de [192.168.22.75] by devnull.ruhr.de with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0y312B-0000W0-00; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:58:43 +0100 Received: from bs by rm.devnull.ruhr.de with local (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0y316k-0000Hv-00; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 17:03:26 +0100 To: Cliff Addy Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD firewall questions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Benedikt Stockebrand Date: 12 Feb 1998 17:03:26 +0100 In-Reply-To: Cliff Addy's message of "Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:31:19 -0500 (EST)" Message-ID: <874t24byk1.fsf@devnull.ruhr.de> Lines: 29 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Cliff Addy writes: > Even if I can't, the real purpose of all this is to measure and meter > outbound traffic, anyway. Hmm, you could've told us before :-) Depending on what you want to do in particular it might have been easiest to make odo use promiscuous mode on its interface and stay out of the way. > My one concern is: what if odo dies? Can I set up the other FreeBSD > machines to "fallback" to wormhole if odo cannot be contacted? I'm not sure about this, but maybe you can do that with different route metrics alone. In the long run proper dynamic routing is probably the best approach, either with routed(8) from the distribution or gated from the ports collection. Ben -- Ben(edikt)? Stockebrand Runaway ping.de Admin---Never Ever Trust Old Friends My name and email address are not to be added to any list used for advertising purposes. Any sender of unsolicited advertisement e-mail to this address im- plicitly agrees to pay a DM 500 fee to the recipient for proofreading services. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message