Routing 4 network cards

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Sat Feb 7 11:01:48 PST 2004


"Roland Wells" <freebsd at thebeatbox.org> writes:

> I guess this is more a question (that could be a possible solution);
> 
> Could you just Bridge all the seperate physical networks, and leave
> firewalling and NAT to be done by the router, or lets say, on another
> FreeBSD box connected to the dsl modem?

In principle, yes.  However, all of those networks are wireless, so my
guess would be that they are in different places.  Or there might be
some gain from logical isolation.  Or some combination of the two.

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