From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 1 18: 8: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A472D15100 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 18:07:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA03148 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 21:11:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199911020211.VAA03148@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: How to route a single box into a subnet In-Reply-To: <199911020121.CAA26450@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> from Oliver Fromme at "Nov 2, 1999 02:21:47 am" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 21:11:24 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oliver Fromme wrote, [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hello, > > We have a /24 subnet (let's call it 1.2.3.0), and for some > technical reason there is one machine (1.2.3.55) that has > to be routed through another machine (1.2.3.44). [snip] I think by far the easiest thing to do for this is to just set up the FreeBSD machine to be an Ethernet bridge. Forget routing all together. A co-worker wanted to have one machine running FreeBSD and one Windoze at work. There is one RJ-45 plug in the wall and rather than waste a hub on him, I just slapped a second NIC in the FreeBSD box (actually the old 10-BaseT one left over from the upgrade to 100-BaseT), put a crossover between it and the Windoze machine, then recompiled the kernel with bridging. Viola! As far as the Windoze machine and the rest of the LAN knows, its connected all on the same wire. Sounds just like your problem. HTH. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message