help, i'm setting up a router

[deeptech71 at gmail.com]

Matthew Seaman wrote:
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> deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
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>> I'm making a FreeBSD router with ppp and telnet access to it (currently
>> part of a network with a hardware router). When I have 1 NIC in the
>> FreeBSD machine (rl0), telnet works fine. Then I add another NIC (ed0).
>> Telnet still works. rc.conf:
>>
>>   ipconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.123.251 netmask 255.255.255.0"
>>   #ipconfig_ed0="inet 192.168.123.251 netmask 255.255.255.0"
>>   hostname="qw.erty.com"
>>   defaultrouter="192.168.123.254"
>>   inetd_enable="YES"
>>   gateway_enable="YES"
> 
> Routers forward packets between different IP networks.  Or in other
> words, the IP numbers on the different interfaces on your router
> should not just be different -- they should come from completely
> different subnets too.
> 
> I think that the keyword for you is 'bridging'. There's a whole
> article about it here:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/filtering-bridges/article.html
> 
> plus Google will turn up plenty more.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
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Yes that would be the correct word. My net is 192.168.123.0/24, the hardware 
router connected to the modem is 192.168.123.254, and I was trying to be 
connected through the FreeBSD box. Then later do this:
Internet---ADSL_modem---FreeBSD---Other_PCs
That is still called bridging, yes?

Thx for the info, i'll try this and see how it turns out.