Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:36:55 -0500 From: "fbsd_user" <fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> To: "albi" <albi@scii.nl>, "Kumar" <kumarrrr@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Setting Up A Home Network ... Message-ID: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGEEDHHNAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <20060214145612.c789a97a.albi@scii.nl>
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yes xp pro can run as gateway with lan behind it -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of albi Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 8:56 AM To: Kumar Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting Up A Home Network ... On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:48:33 +0800 Kumar <kumarrrr@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it possible to set up internet connection, between a XP Pro box, > and a FreeBSD-current box, without the use of a router, I have got > two ethernet cards on the box running XP Pro, and one ethernet card > on the box running FreeBSD-current, and a cross over cable. > > Is it theoretically possible ? if you put 2 nics in the FreeBSD-box with the cross-cable it's possible yes, follow the firewall-instructions : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls. html if you want to keep the 2 nics in the ms-windows-machine, i would suggest to ask in a ms-windows-forum/list etc. -- grtjs, albi gpg-key: lynx -dump http://scii.nl/~albi/gpg.asc | gpg --import _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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