Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 23:44:49 -0400 From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM> To: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: proxy arp and gatewaying Message-ID: <199509190344.XAA08326@Glock.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, September 18, 1995 23:36:46 -0400 References: <199509190336.XAA15068@healer.com>
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On Mon, September 18, 1995 at 23:36:46 (-0400), Coranth Gryphon wrote:
> Matthew C. Mead <mmead@glock.com> asks:
> > Has anyone successfully setup proxy arp and gatewaying on a
> > 2.0.5 or later box? What I want to do is have two interfaces on one of my
> > FreeBSD boxes, where it forwards packets from one interface to another, if
> ...[snip diagram]...
> > Ok, hope that diagram makes sense. What I want to also achieve, is
> > the following. I'd like to have ice and neon setup so that they think
> > their default gateway is goof.com. From what I understand, the GATEWAY
> > kernel option will only copy the traffic across interfaces if it needs to
> We have a box running as a bridge/filter between our the network our router
> is on (our feed also serves another company, which has its own bridge) and
> our internal LAN. Thus:
>
> LAN <--- ether ---> {ed1 - FreeBSD - ed0} <--- ether ---> hub/router
> Just have the outside world set the BSD box (ed0) as the route inward for the
> internal LAN, and have LAN set the BSD box (ed1) as its default gateway.
No can do. :-( Unfortunately, both interfaces for the freebsd
gateway are on the same subnet, and I cannot advertise myself as a router
to another one, considering I don't have one. Basically proxy arp is the
only option other than purchasing a repeater and hooking it up to the
port in the wall, but then multiple hardware addresses will get through...
> Hope that answers the question.
Nope, but thanks for trying... :-)
-matt
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