Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:44:02 PST From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: moos@degnet.baynet.de Cc: FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, danny@panda.hilink.com.au Subject: Re: Is this network possible with FreeBSD ??? Message-ID: <96Oct31.104406pst.177529@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Oct 1996 02:33:17 PST." <3278806D.2FA6@degnet.baynet.de>
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In message <3278806D.2FA6@degnet.baynet.de>you write: > +---------------+ > | FreeBSD-2.1.0 | > |+-------------+| > || NE 2000 || > || 1.2.3.253 || > || ed1 || > ++------o------++ > | > | > ++-------o-------++ > || NE 2000 || > || 1.2.3.36 || > || ed1 || > |+---------------+| > | | > | ISPA +-------+ Telco-wire > | Router | ISDN o------------o ISP 1.2.3.x > | +-------+ net > | | > ++---------------++ This is a fairly strange network, but there are two things you can do: 1) Make the ISPA router proxy-arp for 1.2.3.* and just configure the FreeBSD machine "normally", with a /24 netmask for 1.2.3.* . 2) Give the FreeBSD machine host routes for 1.2.3.1, 1.2.3.2, ..., all pointing to 1.2.3.36. Something like i=1 while [ $i -lt 255 ]; do if [ $i -ne 36 -and $i ne 253 ]; then route add -host 1.2.3.$i 1.2.3.36 fi i=`expr $i + 1` done Bill
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