Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 10:44:47 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Edstr=F6m?= Johan <johan.edstrom@hygiene.sca.se> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can 3.4-S cope with packets not addressed to it? Message-ID: <38994E0F.5C662774@hygiene.sca.se> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002030920510.26330-100000@plato.salford.ac.uk>
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Isn't transparent proxying close to what you look for? there's a FAQ at squid if you wish to use that. /JE Mark Powell wrote: > > 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 <second ip address> > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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