From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bert hubert Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 17:04:27 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] pseudo-bridge Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 07:49:49PM +0200, Laurent Foucher wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working on the french tanslation of the howto and i'm asking some > questions about the chapter pseudo-bridge / Implementing it > Here the list of that we need to do : > > 1.Assign an IP address to both interfaces, the 'left' and the 'right' > one > > Is it the address on the differents interfaces ? Or is it two different > address of the same network ? Two different addresses. Having a single address *might* work. > > 2.Create routes so your machine knows which hosts reside on the left, > and which on the right > > What kind of routes ? I don't understand this. > > Well, can somebody give an real example ? That would be perfect ! Well, the pseudo bridge has hosts on one side and hosts on another. It needs to know which hosts are on which side. A real bridge figures out such things automatically, a pseudo bridge needs to be told. Regards, bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Versatile DNS Services Trilab The Technology People 'SYN! .. SYN|ACK! .. ACK!' - the mating call of the internet _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/