Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:03:36 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, swheeler@altech.ab.ca Subject: Re: routing, win95, etc Message-ID: <199910291903.MAA41759@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <030701bf223f$3a921740$0307070a@shannon-s>
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>From: "Shannon Wheeler" <swheeler@altech.ab.ca> >Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:49:59 -0600 >Yeah, I figured it was more of a Win95 question but I also figured I would >be liklier to find a higher level of expertise here than in most WinXX >groups. I also figured there are quite likely some unix experts who also >know a thing or two about WinXX networking. ></asskissing> :-} Maybe so, but the best I could do as far as an approach to make the hardware on which the Win95 box is running "work" is to install FreeBSD on it. :-) >Assume the FreeBSD box was the dual-homed unit. What would be the route >command to enable the routing from the isolated 10.7.1 network to the main >10.7.7 net? Assuming you're using 255.255.255.0 netmasks on both sides, so that these really are separate networks (vs. a bridged /16, for examaple), you could run routed on the FreeBSD box (which will happen by default if there are 2 or more interfaces at startup, if I recall). But as long as the one net is just the single segment, you don't even need to do that -- the FreeBSD box is clever enough to figure out that 10.7.1.0/24 is reachable from the one interface; merely set some other device on the 10.7.7.0/24 net up as the FreeBSD box's default router. >Are you saying that as it is, something has to be done on the BSD box to >make the directly reachable interface the default router? Or does that have >to be done on the Win95 box as well? Regardless, the dual-homed box needs to route packets between the interfaces. FreeBSD does this (Oh -- you might want to define "GATEWAY" in the kernel). Dunno about Win*. Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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