Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 21:18:19 -0800 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Christian <PLAZAS_CHRISTIAN@mercury.csg.peachnet.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix program to make a pc into an ethernet bridge Message-ID: <555.816585499@westhill.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Nov 1995 00:05:00 EST." <Pine.SUN.3.91.951117000232.21650A-100000@latte.eng.umd.edu>
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Chuck Robey wrote in message ID <Pine.SUN.3.91.951117000232.21650A-100000@latte.eng.umd.edu>: > On Thu, 16 Nov 1995, Christian wrote: > > Hi, > > I am wondering if there was a program (daemon) that runs under > > FreeBSD or Unix in general that will do ethernet to ethernet > > bridging...I found one such program, its called PCBridge, but its for > > dos and its written in assembler. Thanks > No special program needed. FreeBSD does this, when the GATEWAY ip option > is enabled. This isn't a simple thing, you know, setting up a node, you > have to know a bit about tcpip routing, things like how to set up named. > If you don't know how to do this, write again asking for a reference or > two, you are in for some study time. Umm. I'm not sure that's what Christian was looking for. I believe he's looking for a system with does ethernet packet forwarding, not IP packet forwarding. i.e. a full ethernet bridge. This possibly won't be TOO difficult to do using the bpf i/f's, it's just a question of writing the software to do it. I haven't heard of any for FreeBSD. Yours Gary
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