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Date:      Sun, 18 Aug 2002 15:56:03 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Tim <cyberlord@cyberlord.net.dhis.org>
Cc:        Grant Cooper <grant.cooper@nucleus.com>, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Natd and IP interfaces
Message-ID:  <20020818135603.GA5642@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020818134610.GA5411@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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>

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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.


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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se

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