From owner-freebsd-net Wed May 9 8:15:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from zorak.cidera.com (zorak.cidera.com [207.239.230.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 762C437B42C for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 08:15:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rharris@cidera.com) Received: from [207.239.230.157] (parthenon.cidera.com [207.239.230.157]) by zorak.cidera.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f49FFKw05228 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 11:15:20 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 11:15:11 -0400 Subject: Bridge over tun0 waters... From: Rob Harris To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This message was posted Feb of '99. I was wondering if anyone has made an efforts towards this yet. (i.e. Wanna make sure I don't make a hack that's already made.) Thanks. --Rob > the bridges above will be not be doing any IP routing, just forwarding > IP packets based on MAC addresses. you can do this with cisco's and > i'd assume most other major bridge/router vendors. of course you may > run into serious traffic jams if your bridging ethernet over a much > slower line, like a 56k. in fact as many already said the most obvious solution seems to use routing, not bridging. > i'm not sure if this can be done with freebsd however. Luigi's bridge > code and ppp would be the place to look (Luigi will probably be able > to answer this :). just because i am called... bridging in freebsd only works on ethernet-type networks. Someone already asked me that i also add support for 'tun' interfaces so that solutions like the one above are possible. Shouldn't be that hard to implement, just isn't there right now. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message --Rob +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Rob Harris 8037 Laurel Lakes Court, Laurel MD 301.598.0500 x2236 | | Cidera, Inc. rharris@cidera.com fax: 301.598.0837 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Don't rush me sonny. You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles." --Miracle Max, The Princess Bride To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message