I know that NetSBD can act as a router, but is there a way to have it act as
a bridge between 2 bits of the same net?

I'd like to set up the NetBSD box so that it has a TP connection to the world,
and then has a thinnet wire coming out of it so that I can add more machines
to the net temporarily without (a) buying a canary box, and (b) getting more
ports on our already overloaded hub allocated and then freed for machines that
will only need them once in a while.

I ask because I have thinnet cards aplenty, so I could dump one into the box
in question without any cost to me [in fact it already does have a TP card and
a thinnet card in it...], and because it would be a cool thing to do.

The important thing would be that this act as a bridge, not as a router, as I
want the appearance of the same bit of ether.

Anyway, no big deal if this can't be done [which is sort of my take on it], as
I suppose I can get a canary box, but thought it would be cool to not need one.

							--rafal

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