From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 18:50: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EEC437B404 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 18:50:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-34-52.knology.net [24.214.34.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77FE543E4A for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 18:50:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9N1nwGe039452; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:49:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9N1nvhQ039451; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:49:57 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Kelly To: Walter , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: Mac can't connect to Internet Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:49:57 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20021022112154.B7681-100000@babelfish.pursued-with.net> <200210221938.54688.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> <3DB5F39B.462A9489@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <3DB5F39B.462A9489@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200210222049.57576.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 22 October 2002 07:55 pm, Walter wrote: > I had actually tried it with the firewall enabled previously, > but because that had not worked either, had disabled > hoping it would work after (mis-?)reading a post here. > But it seems now that I failed to recompile the kernel > with IPFIREWALL and IPDIVERT, so I'll check back > once that's done and tested. > (Fwiw, the configuration I'm trying to implement is: > Cable-Modem <=> FBSD <=> hub <=> Mac, PC, etc.) Is probably best to compile those into the kernel but IPFW will be kldload(1)'ed by the /etc/rc.* scripts if enabled. As for divert, I don't remember. Custom kernel is a sure thing. On reboot, start by proving the connection between Mac and FreeBSD works. Then FreeBSD to ISP. Then work on Mac thru FreeBSD to ISP. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message