From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 8:52:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rmx194-mta.mail.com (rmx194-mta.mail.com [165.251.48.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B85D037BB2A for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 08:52:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bpetro@usa.com) Received: from web307-mc.mail.com (web307-mc.mail.com [165.251.48.153]) by rmx194-mta.mail.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA26904; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 11:52:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <386160137.965231528001.JavaMail.root@web307-mc.mail.com> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 11:52:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Petro To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Attaching to new Cable Modem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: mail.com X-Originating-IP: 208.24.179.202 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Any one have some help for this? I don't see a section in gregg's book on this (though mine might be an old ver)- I mostly see serial info. This is new (Time Warner's road runner) and according to the setup appears to be not a serial conn at all. (the cable modem that is). You reach the CM via a nic, the windows directions that come with it show you set up the nic with no IP address you go out to DHCP to get your address. You set no DNS (evidently gets negotiated via DHCP), no gateways, no WINS, etc ... How would this get configured? If anyone can help with the above, that's where I believe I must start, just in case, however let me describe the big picture after this step... All of above, I guess is step 1, then I gotta add a second nic with an internal IP and THEN I'll have a nice internal network, with the FreeBSD handling all the external for my machines (well, once I set BSD up to do the proxy or masc. stuff anyway). Its my impression I must go with dual nics since otherwise the address given my BSD machine will change constantly and internal machines would not know how to contact it - correct? Thanks, Bruce. ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message