From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 21:18:40 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA22336 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 21:18:40 -0800 Received: from westhill.cdrom.com (westhill.cdrom.com [192.216.223.138]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA22322 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 21:18:35 -0800 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by westhill.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id VAA00557 ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 21:18:19 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: westhill.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Chuck Robey cc: Christian , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix program to make a pc into an ethernet bridge In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Nov 1995 00:05:00 EST." Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 21:18:19 -0800 Message-ID: <555.816585499@westhill.cdrom.com> From: Gary Palmer Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Chuck Robey wrote in message ID : > 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. Umm. I'm not sure that's what Christian was looking for. I believe he's looking for a system with does ethernet packet forwarding, not IP packet forwarding. i.e. a full ethernet bridge. This possibly won't be TOO difficult to do using the bpf i/f's, it's just a question of writing the software to do it. I haven't heard of any for FreeBSD. Yours Gary