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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.0.5 Problems with GATEWAY
Date: 10 Jul 1995 09:20:45 +0200
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Rob Simons <rob@Simplex.simplex.nl> wrote:
>I'm trying to set up my FreeBSD 2.0.5 machine as a gateway between
>two ethernets through a ppp serial line.
>Since both ends share ip's from the same C-subnet, it's a triffle
>more complicated than I though, if anyone has a similar setup, could
>he or she mail me how he or she did it ?
(As Jordan already mentioned, options GATEWAY is almost a no-op these
days. All it still does is setting the default of
net.inet.ip.forwarding to 1. Expect it to go away RSN.)
I don't think there will be an easier way to solve your problem than
splitting your C net into subnets. The only alternate method i could
think of would be running two gated's on both gateways, and passing
routing information for each and any single host via a routing
protocol, so that you're effectively working with explicit host routes
instead of (sub)network routes.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)