On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Martin McCormick wrote:
I would like to say that I got it working, but after
looking at the duel-homed host section of the Handbook, I am
still stuck. A Google search turned up a thread from a couple of
years ago that almost echoed my exact words. We've got a system
with network interfaces on two disjointed networks. No routing
is desired, but we very much want for both interfaces to be
accessible from the world so each interface has to know about
its nearest gateway just as the primary interface knows about
the default route. What one seems to always be able to do is get
the primary up and talking to the world with no real trouble.
The secondary is on its network and you can log in from another
host on the same subnet but you can never see it from the world,
at large.
Several thoughts:
(1) Are you sure the 2nd network is working? Can you test it
without the complication of dual interfaces?
(2) Without very special software, the interface for outbound
packets is determined exclusively by the destination address,
with no influence by the address of the incoming packet to
that process. So when you log in via interface B, the return
packets will likely come from interface A. Is there a firewall
or router configured to restrict those outgoing packets?
(3) The FreeBSD part of this "should just work". If you just use
sysinstall to install the second interface, that should be enough,
no other configuration is required. I would look at network
devices for the ource of the problem.
(4) Section 31.2 of the Handbook is entirely about using the FreeBSD
box as a gateway or router to connect the two networks. I don't
think you want to do that. They don't have a section on having
a FreeBSD box belong to two networks, and not route between them,
perhaps because it doesn't require any additional configuration.
See (3) above.
Daniel Feenberg
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