Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 12:21:45 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Cc: Gardner Bell <gbell72@rogers.com> Subject: Re: IPFW and NATD problem Message-ID: <200705081221.46248.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <853764.71287.qm@web88009.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <853764.71287.qm@web88009.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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On Tuesday 08 May 2007 11:40:58 am Gardner Bell wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been following the IPFW section in the handbook and /etc/rc.firewall > to try and setup a gateway for my home LAN but I'm having a bit of trouble > getting access to the internet. My network setup looks like so. > > 192.168.x.x bge1 - 192.168.x.x bge0 x.x.x.x > --LAN------------Switch---------FreeBSD-------------------------------ISP > > Bge0 successfully receives an IP from my ISP's DHCP server and I can ping > the LAN without any issues. When it comes to accessing the internet I get > a hostname lookup failure. > > Any help resolving this is greatly appreciated. Do you have "gateway_enable=yes" in your /etc/rc.conf? (check the value of the net.inet.ip.forwarding sysctl). What DNS server is your LAN machine trying to use? Can you ping it (or anything else) by IP? JN
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