From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 18 20:45:12 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA00108 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 20:45:12 -0700 Received: from Glock.COM (root@glock.com [198.82.228.165]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA29998 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 20:45:07 -0700 Received: (from mmead@localhost) by Glock.COM (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA08326; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 23:44:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 23:44:49 -0400 From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199509190344.XAA08326@Glock.COM> To: Coranth Gryphon Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: proxy arp and gatewaying In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, September 18, 1995 23:36:46 -0400 References: <199509190336.XAA15068@healer.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, September 18, 1995 at 23:36:46 (-0400), Coranth Gryphon wrote: > Matthew C. Mead asks: > > Has anyone successfully setup proxy arp and gatewaying on a > > 2.0.5 or later box? What I want to do is have two interfaces on one of my > > FreeBSD boxes, where it forwards packets from one interface to another, if > ...[snip diagram]... > > Ok, hope that diagram makes sense. What I want to also achieve, is > > the following. I'd like to have ice and neon setup so that they think > > their default gateway is goof.com. From what I understand, the GATEWAY > > kernel option will only copy the traffic across interfaces if it needs to > We have a box running as a bridge/filter between our the network our router > is on (our feed also serves another company, which has its own bridge) and > our internal LAN. Thus: > > LAN <--- ether ---> {ed1 - FreeBSD - ed0} <--- ether ---> hub/router > Just have the outside world set the BSD box (ed0) as the route inward for the > internal LAN, and have LAN set the BSD box (ed1) as its default gateway. No can do. :-( Unfortunately, both interfaces for the freebsd gateway are on the same subnet, and I cannot advertise myself as a router to another one, considering I don't have one. Basically proxy arp is the only option other than purchasing a repeater and hooking it up to the port in the wall, but then multiple hardware addresses will get through... > Hope that answers the question. Nope, but thanks for trying... :-) -matt -- Matthew C. Mead mmead@Glock.COM | Network Administration and Software Development http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/ | Consulting: BizNet Technologies -> mmead@bnt.com