From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 25 20: 5:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A81937B7FA for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 20:05:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e4Q3dfB16534; Thu, 25 May 2000 20:39:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 20:39:41 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Keith Longman Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to configure a dhcp based network to gain access to the internet via a cable modem Message-ID: <20000525203940.Q28594@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <000801bfc6ce$d81e72e0$161f83d0@sparldil.mediacom.ispchannel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <000801bfc6ce$d81e72e0$161f83d0@sparldil.mediacom.ispchannel.com>; from kblguy@ispchannel.com on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 09:57:05PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Keith Longman [000525 20:33] wrote: > Hello my name is Keith and i am a cable modem installer.I have > run into a couple of installations where i am hooking into a small > residential hub and trying to gain access to the internet with > multiple machines. Our isp provider uses DHCP to gain a ip address. > How do you configure this?.My company wants us to just configure > one pc to gain access but I want to learn more about this topic. > can it be done easily or at all?. Help if you can > Yup, the FreeBSD installer will ask you if you want to: "try to configure this interface using DHCP" answer yes. FreeBSD also has a network address traslation program called natd that can be setup to realize that the interface's IP address may change and react properly when it happens. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message