From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 15 17:54:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA07693 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 May 1996 17:54:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA07678; Wed, 15 May 1996 17:54:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA01009; Thu, 16 May 1996 10:33:47 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605160103.KAA01009@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Networking / Routing question To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 10:33:47 +0930 (CST) Cc: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, nate@sri.MT.net, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605151947.NAA19867@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at May 15, 96 01:47:47 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nate Williams stands accused of saying: > > > > Since I have two ethernet segments, I must have two different subnets, > > > but I don't see any easy solution to the problem. It would be nice if I > > > could use the ethernet segment as a point-point connection in this case > > > (for latency & BW ethernet is the cheapest way to go). > > > > > > What would you suggest? > > > > use rfc-1918 addresses on the segment between the router and the > > firewall. keep all your 32 ip addresses for your hosts. I was going to suggest this, until it occurred to me that it would be impossible for the firewall to connect out through the router. (With a default route set to the router, packets originating on the firewall will have an unroutable source address, and responses will never come back.) If you are running any sort of proxy on the firewall, this won't work. If not, then you win. > Nate -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[