From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 28 22:55: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3907B37B8CC for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:55:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialin-client.earthlink.net (pool1265.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.254.245]) by penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA07690; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:54:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by dialin-client.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA00745; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:53:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:53:30 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Elliot Finley Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: Transparent bridging using tun device? Message-ID: <20000628225329.E451@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <395bc585.17193602@mail.afnetinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <395bc585.17193602@mail.afnetinc.com>; from efinley@efinley.com on Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 03:52:37AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 03:52:37AM +0000, Elliot Finley wrote: > I have a LAN that I want to split in half, but leave all the IPs the > same (they'll still be on the same subnet). I then wan't to > transparently bridge these two (now) separate LANs back together. > > I know that I can do this by having one computer with two NICs in it, > one on each segment. But what I want to know is if I can connect one > computer from each segment together using a serial cable, and both of > them would be talking PPP (using tun devices) over the serial port. > > Can I do this and transparently bridge across the serial cable? % man bridge . . . Not all interface support bridging -- at the moment it works for ``ed'', ``de'', ``ep'', ``fe'', ``fxp'', ``lnc'', ``mx'', ``tx'', and ``xl'' in- terfaces. Not looking good for the in-kernel bridging. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message