From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 22 10: 0:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2CE237B401 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 10:00:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f6MGuUO24463; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 12:56:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B5B0689.7064322B@iowna.com> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 12:59:53 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Hahn Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which newsgroup do I post to References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Greg Hahn wrote: > > Hello, > > Which newsgroup do I post to in order to find information about setting up > the network properties of my FreeBSD machine. Specifically, I am using a > Cisco 675 external router to provide DSL to my local LAN. The router will > be doing all of the nat routing, but all the documentation I have found only > shows how the FreeBSD machine can do the nat routing, not merely participate > in it. You're posting to the right place. If you're not sure where to post, -questions is always a good place to start. Sometimes you'll be directed to another list, but starting a -questions is a pretty safe bet. I would suggest reading "man rc.conf" an "man ifconfig" as the rc.conf file is the suggested place to put network config to be run at bootup. ifconfig is the way to set it manually. -Bill -- It may be that true happiness is nothing more than the ability to *always* know the right thing to say at the right time, whereas true misery is the state of perpetually saying to oneself, "What I *should* have said was..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message