From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 17 15:59:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E444537B503 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 15:59:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.2/8.11.1) with SMTP id f1HNxHi40419; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 18:59:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: julianz@vsl.cua.edu (Julian Zottl) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bridging and routing problem... Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 18:59:16 -0500 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 8 Feb 2001 14:36:03 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you = wrote: >> What are the subnet sizes on each side of the firewall? >> 137.224.188.2/24 --> Firewall --> 137.242.189.0/24 >> I'm assuming this is the case? >137.242.188.2/16 >137.242.189.1/24 > >> Blah! I would use routing in this case. Why are you using >> bridging? Is there some special need for it? >I agree with you :) Maybe I'll switch back if there is no other way to >fix this! Thanks, Its much easier with routing. Do you really need bridging ? i.e. are you running non routed protocols like IPX/netbeui or Appletalk that must be = in the same broadcast domain as the other side of the firewall ? If not, = just use routing. Its much easier to manage. Besides, it sort of defeats the point of the firewall if you still share the same broadcast domain as the other side. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message