Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 21:40:43 -0800 From: Rob <europax@home.com> To: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: direct routing help needed Message-ID: <3A7E3CDB.C55565CD@home.com> References: <200102050523.QAA16754@tungsten.austclear.com.au>
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Thanks Tony. I now understand why the direct route won't work. The good news is that I read a lot of man pages and the O'Reilly TCP/IP book in the process :) Maybe the sanest solution is to use NAT on my OpenBSD box. Rob. Tony Landells wrote: > > Hi Rob, > > In a nutshell, you can't route (directly) to something you're not > connected to. As soon as the IP address falls outside your subnet, > you need a gateway ON YOUR NETWORK to send it to. > > If I'm reading your email correctly, both of these computers are > on the same switch, and then there's a single cable modem carrying > two different subnets: > > ----- > Host A ----- | s | > FreeBSD | | w | > -----------| i | cable > | t |-------modem-------Internet > -----------| c | > Host B | | h | > OpenBSD----- | | > ----- > > To avoid buying a router, you basically have to have both computers > on the same (IP) network. > > The best way (IMHO) would be to throw another NIC in each computer, > connect them directly with a crossover cable, and configure them to > be on a common network (preferably from the RFC1918 selection). > > If you don't want to spend any money, you may be able to do it by > configuring alias addresses on each existing interface which happen > to be in the same network. Again, you would want to pick from > RFC1918 addresses, and your service provider may get upset if your > boxes generate, for example, broadcast traffic for RFC1918 addresses > that get sent out through the cable modem. > > Good luck, > Tony > -- > Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> > Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 > Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 > Level 4, Rialto North Tower > 525 Collins Street > Melbourne VIC 3000 > Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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