From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 4 08:04:35 2004 Return-Path: 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 85E0716A4CE for ; Tue, 4 May 2004 08:04:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shadow.wixb.com (shadow.wixb.com [65.43.82.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1736F43D31 for ; Tue, 4 May 2004 08:04:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jbronson@wixb.com) Received: from dakota.wixb.com (shadow.wixb.com [10.43.82.173]) i44F4Xvs000991; Tue, 4 May 2004 10:04:33 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.2.20040504100337.0245c7f0@localhost> Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 10:04:56 -0500 To: Bill Moran From: "J.D. Bronson" In-Reply-To: <4097AD72.70403@potentialtech.com> References: <6.1.0.6.2.20040504071343.024331b8@localhost> <200405040635.03640.kstewart@owt.com> <6.1.0.6.2.20040504091427.02457290@localhost> <200405040724.09537.kstewart@owt.com> <6.1.0.6.2.20040504092942.0245ebe0@localhost> <4097AD72.70403@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: arp issues...but WHY X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 15:04:35 -0000 At 09:49 AM 05/04/2004, Bill Moran wrote: >>Then how do I get data from one segment to the other w/o using a router >>and yet at the same time keeping 'arp' happy ? > >You don't. That's what a router does. If you want to move data between >two different networks you either need a router, or you need to cheat (like >you currently are) and just ignore the arp messages. > >You can just turn on forwarding on the BSD machine with the two NICs and it >will act as a router for you. > >-- >Bill Moran Thanks again for all the time for explanations. Since everything works fine the way it is (with the arp mesgs I can turn off with systcl and hence solve that) would there be any benefit for turning on forwarding or just leaving things as they are? Thanks! -JDB -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care // Information Services // Milwaukee, WI USA Office: 414.978.8282 // Email: jd@aurora.org // Pager: 414.314.8282