From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 18 6:56: 9 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 5804137B400 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 06:56:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maile.telia.com (maile.telia.com [194.22.190.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4108143E6E for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 06:56:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by maile.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7IDu6mC001878 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 15:56:06 +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 PAA10451 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 15:56:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 5662 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Aug 2002 13:56:03 -0000 Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 15:56:03 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Tim Cc: Grant Cooper , FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Natd and IP interfaces Message-ID: <20020818135603.GA5642@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> <20020818134610.GA5411@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020818134610.GA5411@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> 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 03:46:10PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > 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. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/filtering-bridges/index.html might also be useful to read if you want to run a firewall on the bridge. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message