From owner-freebsd-net Thu Feb 3 1:24:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from amalthea.salford.ac.uk (amalthea.salford.ac.uk [146.87.255.61]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E00B94390 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 01:24:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 11207 invoked by alias); 3 Feb 2000 09:24:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 11193 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2000 09:24:15 -0000 Received: from plato.salford.ac.uk (146.87.255.76) by amalthea.salford.ac.uk with SMTP; 3 Feb 2000 09:24:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 26346 invoked by uid 141); 3 Feb 2000 09:24:14 -0000 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 09:24:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Powell To: Wim Livens Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can 3.4-S cope with packets not addressed to it? In-Reply-To: <20000203100939.A290@rc.bel.alcatel.be> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Wim Livens wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 06:34:55PM +0000, Mark Powell wrote: > > We want to force the use of our web caches. Our boundary router is a 3Com > > NetBuilder II, which we can get to forward port 80 traffic to another IP > > address. However, it does not rewrite the destination IP address in the IP > > header. Thus the machine has to be directly connected to the router to > > actually get the packets. > > What I'm wondering, is can FreeBSD cope with this? Will it be able to > > process these packets, with an IP address that is not it's own, at all or > > maybe this helps: > ifconfig ... alias Hmmm. Hadn't though of that. Now how many web servers are there in the world. Could you provide a list and I'll start setting the aliases up. Seriously, is there any way to get FreeBSD to accept any IP packets? Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - Clifford Whitworth Building A.I.S., University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 5936 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key M.S.Powell@ais.salfrd.ac.uk (spell salford correctly to reply to me) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message