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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IP forwarding Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 21:18:30 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3235DB26.27D5@www.play-hookey.com> References: <513hrs$ca@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Brian Somers wrote: > > On a machine w/ 3 interfaces, is there any way to forward IP between two > of them, but not the third ? For example, I have two subnets & a ppp > to the internet - I want the subnets to talk, but not send crap onto > the 'net. > As long as a packet was specifically addressed to the 'other' subnet, I wouldn't expect it to go over the PPP link. As near as I can tell, anything I send internally to one of the other computers on my subnet stays here, although my primary server has GATEWAY set to "YES." I think it only forwards packets that don't already have a local home. Or is that just wishful thinking? -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |