Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 18:16:36 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> 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> 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 References: <199911020121.CAA26450@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <199911020211.VAA03148@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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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
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