From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 29 14:27:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CD9A37B405 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:27:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fATMR7H71709; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:27:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:27:07 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" X-X-Sender: To: Chris Appleton Cc: Subject: Re: bridge vs router In-Reply-To: <20011129215514.756.qmail@web14801.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20011129140520.P16958-100000@localhost> X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you X-TO-THE-FBI-CIA-AND-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Chris Appleton wrote: > I have a class c that i want to leave exposed but > restrict port access. ok. which ports? why? have you thought out what the breakdown of your network is going to be? > can i configure 4.4-release as a router that allows > traffic to .1 (gateway) on rl0 and the rest of the > subnet on rl1? you could simply set it up as a bridge, or provide more interfaces, and simply break down or route your class C. > or is bridge the only way to split a subnet like that? > and if so is an ipfw bridge fast enough for 30-35 > nodes (some servers)? ipfw should be fine, as long as the hardware you're running FreeBSD on is able to keep up with it. i would suggest avoiding userland packetshaping applications (natd, for example) since they would move packets out of the kernel. i would suggest figuring out how (or if) you want to break down your subnet, then worry about firewalling it. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message