From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 21:06:37 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA19990 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 21:06:37 -0800 Received: from chemserv.umd.edu (chemserv.umd.edu [129.2.64.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA19944 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 21:05:46 -0800 Received: from latte.eng.umd.edu (latte.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.15]) by chemserv.umd.edu (8.7.1/8.7) with ESMTP id AAA05959; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 00:05:01 -0500 (EST) Received: (chuckr@localhost) by latte.eng.umd.edu (8.7.1/8.6.4) id AAA21756; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 00:05:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 00:05:00 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@latte.eng.umd.edu To: Christian cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix program to make a pc into an ethernet bridge In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 16 Nov 1995, Christian wrote: > Hi, > > I am wondering if there was a program (daemon) that runs under > FreeBSD or Unix in general that will do ethernet to ethernet > bridging...I found one such program, its called PCBridge, but its for > dos and its written in assembler. Thanks No special program needed. FreeBSD does this, when the GATEWAY ip option is enabled. This isn't a simple thing, you know, setting up a node, you have to know a bit about tcpip routing, things like how to set up named. If you don't know how to do this, write again asking for a reference or two, you are in for some study time. > > C.P. > > ____________ > > Christian Plazas > Columbus College, Columbus,GA > 706.568.3045 > ______________________________________________________________________ > ========================================================================== Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 Here's OJ's internet address in hex code: 00 2F 2F 2F 2F 5C 7F 2D 0D 15 1B 19 24 24 24 18 If you can't recall the translation, here it is: null character, slash, slash, slash, slash, backslash, rubout, dash, carriage return, negative acknowledgement, escape, end of media, dollar sign, dollar sign, dollar sign, cancel