Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 09:24:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk> To: Wim Livens <livensw@rc.bel.alcatel.be> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can 3.4-S cope with packets not addressed to it? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002030920510.26330-100000@plato.salford.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000203100939.A290@rc.bel.alcatel.be>
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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
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