On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 12:59:38AM -0400, nm wrote:
> I have a sparc IPX with two le0 interfaces (the onboard one and an sbus card).
> 
> I want to use this system as a bridge between two ethernet segments.  The
> tricky
> part is that there is no defined break between the host addresses on one
> segment
> or the other.  For example, lets say that the class c in question is
> 199.106.1.x
> 
> 		C--D-----[IPX]-----A--B
> 
> A - 199.106.1.12
> B - 199.106.1.3
> C - 199.106.1.24
> D - 199.106.1.55
> 
> 
> 1.  Is this possible?

I think it is, by adding explicit routes and public arp entries for each host
on the IPX.

> 
> 2.  Anyone care to help me get this working if it is possible?

I'll try :)
assuming A & B are on the le0 side, and C & D on le1, try:
ifconfig le0 192.106.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig le1 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
(You need 2 addr on distinct network for le0 and le1 - you may want to
 take other addrs, as long as they are on distict network).
arp -s A <ether addr of A> pub
arp -s B <ether addr of B> pub
arp -s C <ether addr of C> pub
arp -s D <ether addr of D> pub
route add -host A 192.106.1.1 -interface
route add -host B 192.106.1.1 -interface
route add -host C 10.0.0.1 -interface
route add -host D 10.0.0.1 -interface

I think this should work, but I didn't try it :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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