From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 22 21:25:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jhb-imta.mweb.co.za (jhb-imta.mweb.co.za [196.2.48.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43FC37B403 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 21:25:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from psyv@root.org.za) Received: from pta-dial-196-31-187-73.mweb.co.za ([196.31.187.73]) by jhb-imta.mweb.co.za (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0GGW004NUS0VWR@jhb-imta.mweb.co.za> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 06:20:22 +0200 (GMT-2) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 06:26:30 +0200 (SAST) From: The Psychotic Viper Subject: Re: FBSD box between cisco and clients In-reply-to: <007101c11320$2159d0a0$020101c8@Liquidsoul.my.domain> X-Sender: psyv@lucifer.fuzion.za.org To: Gideon Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hi, On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Gideon wrote: > At this moment our network looks like this : > > Clients - Cisco Router - Internet > > I want to do the following > > Clients - FBSD - Cisco - Internet any more info on connectivity, i.e. any routers,hubs between the fbsd box and the client machines? > Every machine above including the clients have public ip's . The reason i > need to do this is i need to do bandwidth limiting with the freebsd box thus > the clients must not be able to access the cisco directly . also all the > machines above must be on one subnet . Well what I do is setup the FreeBSD box as a firewall to pass out data from ur internal (translates as client in ur case) network (via NAT). They can keep their IPs just need their gateway changed. So in essence a transparent NAT gateway/firewall. > I was wondering whot will be the best way of doing this ? Also sum > documentation references would be much appreciated . Also whot software > should i use for bandwidth capping ? IPFW or ALTQ or ne other ? as for the rate limiting DUMMYNET works good in my experiences. PsyV To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message