[rescue] routing between FDDI and enet

Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 patrick at zill.net
Thu Dec 19 20:49:25 CST 2002


On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 10:30:07PM +0100, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On 2002.12.19 21:28 "Loomis, Rip" wrote:
> 
> > I hope to be proven wrong on both Linux and OpenBSD, since both
> > do apparently document that they can bridge three or more
> > interfaces.
> Also it should be taken in mind that such a bridge driver must do
> (de)fragmentation. At least the one in NetBSD can't do this. Proper
> (de)fragmentation is a mandatory requirement as FDDI and Ethernet have
> different MTUs.

Well, perhaps the use of IP forwarding + pf (OpenBSD packet filter)
rules like "scrub all", "pass in all", "pass out all" will do it.  I
knew that FDDI had a larger MTU which is good, but could cause
problems; which is why I asked this list to begin with :-)

Cordially
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