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Date:      Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:46:44 -0400
From:      Peter Chiu <pccb@yahoo.com>
To:        "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
Cc:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re[2]: routing question
Message-ID:  <124133940596.20000923134644@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000922232339.M367@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
References:  <4575727640.20000922213638@yahoo.com> <20000922232339.M367@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>

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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.


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