From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 18 6:46:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E088D37B400 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 06:46:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maild.telia.com (maild.telia.com [194.22.190.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE1143E6E for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 06:46:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by maild.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7IDkIoO021085 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 15:46:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-Recipient: Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h62n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.62]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA02784 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 15:46:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 5570 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Aug 2002 13:46:10 -0000 Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 15:46:10 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Tim Cc: Grant Cooper , FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Natd and IP interfaces Message-ID: <20020818134610.GA5411@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Tim , Grant Cooper , FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <063501c2465d$9604b930$2afececd@TCOOPER> <1029622354.12169.7.camel@markx.vladsempire.net> <067701c24694$e8c58c80$2afececd@TCOOPER> <200208180831.28855.cyberlord@cyberlord.net.dhis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200208180831.28855.cyberlord@cyberlord.net.dhis.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 08:31:28AM -0500, Tim wrote: > I suppose with proper masking and IP numbers you could make a FBSD router act > like a switch. But each computer on the network would have it's own subnet > and you'd have to set up a routing table. You can make it act like a switch without bothering about subnets and routing tables. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bridging.html for details. > > But since the cost of the extra NICs and the time and trouble to set up the > tables would be more than the cost of a small hub, it doesn't make sense. This I agree with in general. Most of the time it is a better idea to just buy a small hub or switch. They are fairly cheap these days. > > It's just not worth it unless you specifically *need* seperate subnets. > > Tim > > On Sunday 18 August 2002 03:54 am, Grant Cooper wrote: > > Yeh it's resolved. I was thinking (hoping) FreeBSD had some algorithm magic. > > How is it not possible to turn your computer into a switch by adding more > > networking cards. Hubs and routers are so small. As I mention above, you can do it, but natd is normally not involved in any way in doing it. And besides, a separate hub/switch/router is usually a better idea. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Josh Paetzel" > > To: "Grant Cooper" > > Cc: > > Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 4:12 PM > > Subject: Re: Natd and IP interfaces > > > > > > > On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 02:18, Grant Cooper wrote: > > > > Can a natd have more than one internal interface so multiple computers > > can > > > > connect to a single computer with 2 or 3 network cards > > > > > > Uh, no. You'd have to bind the same ip to two different cards, and I'm > > > sure you can see the problems with that. > > > > > > > > > > > > . I tried everything > > > > and then bought another hub and everything works fine now. > > > > > > Good. Does that mean that your issue is resolved, or is there a > > > question here I am missing? > > > > > > > > > Josh -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message