From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 17:10:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01CFE37B479 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:10:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from sprintmail.com (sdn-ar-004njnbruP315.dialsprint.net [168.191.61.221]) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA20771; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:09:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3A2305DA.14907BD7@sprintmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:09:46 -0500 From: Eric Rivas X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Akshay Lamba Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bride Help References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Akshay Lamba wrote: > > Hi!! I am a graduate student at university of michigan. I have now > been able to get my > server up but with a few gliches. I have a freebsd server with 2 > network > cards. I need that data packets should be interchanges between the 2 > cards > so that the workstations (attached to one of the cards through a hub) > can > access the internet attached to the other card. Now, I did some > reading on > it and it seems i have to create a "bridge" between the 2 cards. I > just > wanted to confirm from you if this is right. Also.. the documentation > gives > the following lines about creating a bridge. I think you might just want to add this to your /etc/rc.conf (create it if it doesn't exist): gateway_enable="YES" This will allow packets to pass between your two cards. Hope I was helpful. > ---------------------------------------------- > 16.3.3.2. Kernel configuration changes > To enable kernel support for bridging, add the > > options BRIDGE > > statement to your kernel configuration file, and rebuild your kernel. > ----------------------------------------------- > > Could you explain to me what it means. My main questions are:- > 1. Which is the kernel configuration file. > 2. How do i rebuild by kernel and then get it up and running. > > Thanks a lot of your help. > > Regards. > Akshay Lamba -- Eric J. Rivas WWW: http://home.sprintmail.com/~rivas45/ ICQ: 61930546 "The right to revolt has sources deep in our history." -- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message