From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 23 10:46:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ipfw.org (cr308584-a.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com [24.114.52.208]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47CA037B424 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 10:46:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo (apollo.objtech.com [192.168.111.5]) by mail.ipfw.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7035D311B; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:46:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:46:44 -0400 From: Peter Chiu X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.46c) Reply-To: Peter Chiu X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <124133940596.20000923134644@yahoo.com> To: "Crist J . Clark" Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: routing question In-reply-To: <20000922232339.M367@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> References: <4575727640.20000922213638@yahoo.com> <20000922232339.M367@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Saturday, September 23, 2000, 2:23:39 AM, you wrote: > Two problems with routing here. First, do you really have the > 209.111.111.96/16 net? Assuming that 209.111.111.97 is being used for > the IP of the modem, then 98-110 would be the other usable addresses > on the net. If that is the case, I suppose you could bust it into two > 3-bit nets. But the second problem is bigger. If you are going to be > doing any routing, your modem (or the router behind it) would have to > know that 209.111.111.99 needs to be routed through 209.111.111.98. Do > you know if you can do that? Can't do that :( > You might be better off doing bridging. See bridge(4). In that case, > you would not give vr0 an IP address at all. Yes. I think this is the way to go. Unfortunately, vr is not supported by bridge. Gotta switch some NICs. Thx. -- Peter \\|// (o o) +-------------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo-----------------------------+ EMail : mailto:pccb(at)yahoo(dot)com PGPkey : http://www.pchiu.com/pgpkey.txt PGP fingerprint: 949E 0F39 422D 53EA F463 8C06 9E07 5078 838B 4D20 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ LBNC (luser brain not connected) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message