From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 13 13:55: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1082E155F3 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:54:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA28378; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 07:13:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:13:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: ugen.antsilevitch@undp.org Cc: Len Conrad , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ip-less? In-Reply-To: <7727B678FA5.AAAFAD@inet01.hq.undp.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 ugen.antsilevitch@undp.org wrote: > Len Conrad wrote: > >I didn't find anything useful about "ipless" or "ip-less" on the fbsd.org > >search facility, and nothing in man ifconfig or man route. > > > >Is there any way to ip-less WAN links with fbsd? We're under a lot of > >pressure to justify ip space, and losing 4 ip's per dedicated WAN subnet > >looks like a good place economize. > > > Why not use private address space? 192.168 is ready and able.. > And you won't waste anything? You can subnet it any way you want and > use on all WAN links since nobody really cares what is where? > I do not know that freebsd has ipless ip links. AFAIK you have to > have an ip address on an interface for it to do anything.. > But then i don't know all the answers... Actually you may want to experiment with the BRIDGE option in the kernel. Probably by adding routes based on interface you'll be able to do it. route add 192.168 -iface fxp0 ... good luck, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message