From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 14 9:36: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.cybersurf.net (smtp2.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.112]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEB0249A6 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 09:36:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from webserver ([209.197.158.241]) by smtp2.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id FPXKW600.GNM; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:36:06 -0700 Message-ID: <00e601bf7712$2f090460$f19ec5d1@webserver> From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: Cc: Subject: Re: Routed and public IPs Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:35:19 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, February 13, 2000 10:12 PM Crist J. Clark wrote: >Well, if you want it to run as a bridge, first thing you need to do is >stp thinking about routing the public IPs all together. OK, if you >have a registered numbers, a.b.c.0/24, and the unregistered, >10.0.0.0/24 (it's shortest to write), this is how your IPs will end up >looking, > } > Internet }--[router]--[a.b.c.1:firewall:10.0.0.254]--+ > } | > | > | > _________________........____________________|_____........ > | | | | > [a.b.c.2:] [a.b.c.3:] ........ [10.0.0.1:] [10.0.0.2:] ........ > [ hostA ] [ hostB ] ........ [ host1 ] [ host2 ] ........ > >Like this. The machines with registered IPs on the internal LAN will >actually require no new configuration, nor does the router. Since the >firewall bridges, the router is still their gateway. Although I'm not involved in this thread, directly or indirectly, I want to thank you for such a great reply. I can't believe you and Ruslan et al -- I'm green with envy. I've saved this thread for future reference, however would you mind defining for me (in laymen's terms) the concept of bridge(4)ing? Something like: "bridging is using a box to bridge a gap between (public & private IPs??) or ?? ". I don't want your info to go to waste on this newbie, so I thought I'd ask. Tia... -duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message