From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Oct 16 8:50:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from dbasecentral.com (prod1.dbasecentral.com [205.243.161.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16FBC14CA3 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 08:50:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@kyler.com) Received: from cheat (adsl-151-200-15-77.bellatlantic.net [151.200.15.77]) by dbasecentral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA23144 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 10:48:10 -0500 From: "Ken Kyler" To: Subject: Installing and using ADSL Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 11:50:50 -0400 Message-ID: <000001bf17ee$385e4260$4d0fc897@kylernet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Background: I'm new to both Unix and FreeBSD. I have an old Dell Pentium 200 w/ 96M RAM that I want to setup as a FreeBSD box. I have two other computers that I want to connect to the Internet by going through the FreeBSD box. One runs Windoz NT (my development box) and the other runs Windoz 98 (my test and trash box) The FreeBSD box has 2 NICs. One NIC will connect to my ADSL line and the other to my local hub. I want to use the FreeBSD box as a firewall to protect my home network. I also want to install Apache, mySQL, PHP, and JApache on it to do local testing/development. I've been reading the FAQs, FreeBSDDiary and any other source of information and haven't been able to solve my problems. Questions and Problems: I started out by just trying to install FreeBSD without doing anything else. I managed to get it to install and boot okay. However I have several initial questions and a problem. I'm sure I'll have more after I get past the following. Q1: Is it necessary to give my local/home network a domain name or should I leave the domain name blank when configuring the NICs? Q2: Should both NICs have the same host name? Q3: How should the NIC connected to the local network be configured? I am planning on using IP 10.0.0.1 P1: I can ping my ISP's gateway but I can't ping beyond that. It returns a message stating it can't resolve the domain. TIA! Ken Kyler ken@kyler.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message