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Date:      Thu, 05 Aug 1999 12:53:26 -0700 (MST)
From:      vagner@WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM
To:        Eric Lee Green <elgreen@iname.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Joe <ibjoe@home.com>, vagner@www.timandpatrick.com
Subject:   Re: FREEBSD, Proxy Server, Cable Modem
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990805125326.vagner@vagner.com>
In-Reply-To: <99080510353501.04193@ehome.local.net>

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OK so i stand corrected, my internal ip's can leak out onto
the @home net since I have one network card, but i am not using
the 192.168.0. net for internal net but i will change this
as soon as you send me the network card.



> So *YOU* are the moron making my kernel complain that "192.168.1.1 is on de0,
> but was accessed from rl0".  (Yes, I'm on cable modem too).
> 
> It's silliness like this that's going to get FreeBSD and Linux users banned
> from the cable network.  You can't just put any old addresses out onto a
> public Ethernet (which is what the cable "modem" is, basically) and expect
> the
> rest of us to put up with it. 
> 
> Put another card into your machine and use it as a gateway and firewall.
> Please.
> I'll even send you a spare RTL-based card if you want (they're slow and
> worthless for real work, but okay for half-duplex 10BaseT), and provide
> detailed
> setup for how to set up ipfw and natd (it's pretty easy, just a couple of
> rc.conf tweaks). Just please quit polluting the public network with your
> private
> addresses!
> 
> --
> Eric Lee Green    http://members.tripod.com/e_l_green
>   mail: e_l_green@hotmail.com
>                     ^^^^^^^    Burdening Microsoft with SPAM!    

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Date: 05-Aug-99
Time: 12:46:01

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