Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 15:27:18 -0400 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" <dochawk@psu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: safely briding from internet to "localnet" Message-ID: <200105231927.f4NJRIE28957@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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I'm still at a loss here; I'm probably asking the wrong questions. I have vmware successfully installed, and have networking between my machine and the virtual machine as a local network. What I'm not getting is how to get my machine to act as a gateway or bridge to the local network so that it can see the rest of the world. I understand that natd and/or ipfw are involved, but the man pages make it look like I'm playing with fire. All I want is for the machine to be a gateway for a "machine" on the "local" network that can be trusted absolutely, and to do absolutely nothing for any other machine in the world. There must be a simple way to do this, and probably even a page explaining it . . . hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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