From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 30 9:13:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B0F637B405 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:13:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f7UGC9L82608; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:12:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:12:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: Sridhar M Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help me regarding IP forwarding In-Reply-To: <3B8E2130.F0EEC773@in.ceeyes.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Sridhar M wrote: > > hi > > while i am working on FreeBSD5.0, my system has configured with two > ethernet cards which was i need. and my system ethernet cards > configuration are > fxp0 : ip : 10.1.6.160/24 > fxp1 : ip : 10.1.6.161/24 These IP's are part of the same network 10.1.6.0/24....you can not split these 2 IP's across 2 different interfaces without bridging turned on. If you don't turn bridging on, which interface does BSD use to communicate to the 10.1.6.0/24 network? See the problem? This is a major no-no with routing. Nick Rogness - Keep on Routing in a Free World... "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message