From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 1 18:17: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2AF9152F2 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 18:16:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA12682; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 18:16:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 18:16:36 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to route a single box into a subnet Message-ID: <19991101181636.A9329@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <199911020121.CAA26450@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <199911020211.VAA03148@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <199911020211.VAA03148@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>; from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com on Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 09:11:24PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 09:11:24PM -0500, Crist J. Clark wrote: > 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. Definitely. I should have though of that since I've also got a network configured almost exactly as described. The fact that we're only bridging so the host on the other side works normaly when we're not running man-in-the-middle attacks on it must have confused me. ;-) You can even run firewalling and dummynet using bridges. -- Brooks -- "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one" --Thomas Jefferson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message