From owner-freebsd-net Mon Feb 22 22:18:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D7A1117A2 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:18:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id FAA18698; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 05:04:44 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199902230404.FAA18698@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: ethernet segment spliting To: eddy@isi.edu Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 05:04:43 +0100 (MET) Cc: jon@caamora.com.au, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <14034.5665.522309.576539@kit.isi.edu> from "eddy@isi.edu" at Feb 22, 99 07:22:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 861 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > the bridges above will be not be doing any IP routing, just forwarding > IP packets based on MAC addresses. you can do this with cisco's and > i'd assume most other major bridge/router vendors. of course you may > run into serious traffic jams if your bridging ethernet over a much > slower line, like a 56k. in fact as many already said the most obvious solution seems to use routing, not bridging. > i'm not sure if this can be done with freebsd however. Luigi's bridge > code and ppp would be the place to look (Luigi will probably be able > to answer this :). just because i am called... bridging in freebsd only works on ethernet-type networks. Someone already asked me that i also add support for 'tun' interfaces so that solutions like the one above are possible. Shouldn't be that hard to implement, just isn't there right now. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message