From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 9: 3:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.nc.rr.com (fe1.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0EAA37BBEF for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:03:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@nc.rr.com) Received: from rdu25-30-217.nc.rr.com ([24.25.30.217]) by mail1.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:03:08 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:03:14 -0400 From: Neill Robins X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.42f) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: Neill Robins X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <18753170475.20000802120314@nc.rr.com> To: Bruce Petro Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Attaching to new Cable Modem In-reply-To: <386160137.965231528001.JavaMail.root@web307-mc.mail.com> References: <386160137.965231528001.JavaMail.root@web307-mc.mail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wednesday, August 02, 2000, 11:52:06 AM, you wrote: BP> Any one have some help for this? I don't see a BP> section in gregg's book on this (though mine BP> might be an old ver)- I mostly see serial info. BP> This is new (Time Warner's road runner) and according BP> to the setup appears to be not a serial conn at all. BP> (the cable modem that is). BP> You reach the CM via a nic, the windows directions that BP> come with it show you set up the nic with no IP address BP> you go out to DHCP to get your address. You set BP> no DNS (evidently gets negotiated via DHCP), no BP> gateways, no WINS, etc ... BP> How would this get configured? BP> If anyone can help with the above, that's where BP> I believe I must start, just in case, however BP> let me describe the big picture after this step... BP> All of above, I guess is step 1, then I gotta add a BP> second nic with an internal IP and THEN I'll have BP> a nice internal network, with the FreeBSD BP> handling all the external for my machines (well, BP> once I set BSD up to do the proxy or masc. stuff BP> anyway). Its my impression I must go with dual BP> nics since otherwise the address given my BSD BP> machine will change constantly and internal BP> machines would not know how to contact BP> it - correct? BP> Thanks, BP> Bruce. Hey Bruce, I use Road Runner (Raleigh, NC) with FreeBSD v4.0 with no problems. I also did the 2 nic configuration so my FreeBSD machine could act as a gateway for some Windows machines. It really isn't bad to set up. Here are some sources that are good and can get you on your way. http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd http://www.freebsddiary.org/ Good luck, Neill freebsd@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message