Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 09:45:09 -0400 From: "Jamil Taylor" <jamil_taylor@pobox.com> To: "Marek Florianczyk" <franki@mentat.oko.com.pl> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: 3Com Firewall Message-ID: <FKEMLJJIEMGPCHMODAKEOEBFCAAA.jamil_taylor@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10007221345480.1812-100000@mentat.oko.com.pl>
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Thanks so much for the assistance! I ended up getting my internet connection under FreeBSD working with the firewall and cable modem. The problem was that the ip address of the firewall device was not on the same subnet as the ip address assigned to my computer. Apparently, Windows does not have a problem with this and can cope, but FreeBSD will not communicate with the firewall. To fix this, I just changed the ip address of the firewall from the default to one on the same subnet, used the route add command below, and all is working now. Thanks again! -----Original Message----- From: Marek Florianczyk [mailto:franki@mentat.oko.com.pl] Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 6:52 AM To: Jamil Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3Com Firewall Hi. I imagine that now you have cable modem connected to ipfirewall, and next to PC. So you should change your default gateway destination under FreeBSD Check this "netstat -rn" "route add default ip_adress_3com", and DNS should be in /etc/resolv.conf. Something like this: nameserver ip_address Good luck :-) Marek Florianczyk franki@oko.com.pl tel 0502 126 187 On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Jamil Taylor wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 4.0 on a machine connected to the net with a cable > modem. My isp had given me a static ip address, and my internet access > worked fine. I recently purchased a 3Com OfficeConnect Firewall. To get this > to work with my cable modem, I had to configure the firewall to use NAT and > assign the NAT public address to be the same as the ip address my isp > assigned to me. I have FreeBSD and Windows 98 installed on the same machine. > Windows 98 has no problem with internet access, but I cannot make a > connection on the internet with FreeBSD at all. If I try to ping an ip > address on the internet, I receive "ping:sendto: no route to host." I am > able to ping my isp's gateway successfully though. I can only attempt to use > ip addresses, because DNS is not working at all. > > The only setup for the firewall I had to make was to change the gateway on > my PC to the firewall's ip address. The firewall has my isp's gateway stored > in its configuration. This works under Windows but not FreeBSD. > > I would appreciate any suggestions as to what I could try to get this to > work. 3Com states that this firewall device is OS independent and works with > Unix... > > Thanks, > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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