From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 8 8:31:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.vsl.cua.edu (vsl.cua.edu [136.242.188.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AFC537B4EC for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 08:31:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by gateway.vsl.cua.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA77762; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 11:26:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from julianz@vsl.cua.edu) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 11:26:44 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200102081626.LAA77762@gateway.vsl.cua.edu> From: "Julian Zottl" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Bridging and routing problem... X-Mailer: NeoMail 1.21 X-IPAddress: 136.242.189.64 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, I have looked for a solution to this for awhile, but havn't been able to find it (probably a glaringly obvious). I have the following setup: Internet 137.242.188.2 137.242.189.1 --------><--------------Firewall------------->LAN (137.242.189.0) I use bridging to link the two together and IPFW for a firewall. My problem is that all traffic that comes from the internet is broadcast to my entire subnet! Visually I see this on all my switches as the entire thing lights up. I know that bridging is supposed to do broadcasting like this, but is there a better solution. I had ran routed at one point, but the majority of the experts I know say that I should have been doing bridging, so I switched. Any help is much appriciated! Please CC me any answers as I am not on tha mailing list any more. Julian Zottl System Administrator, The Vitreous State Laboratory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message