Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 15:09:40 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> Cc: Bri <brian@ukip.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhcp problems with my ISP Message-ID: <3D4C54A4.5B2C2858@mindspring.com> References: <bulk.27712.20020803114650@hub.freebsd.org> <20020803104230.B27467@lava.net>
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Clifton Royston wrote: > However, one special and relevant case of "Use the same exact NIC" is > to set up one of the various UNIX boxes as your gateway doing NAT, and > have it act as a DHCP server for your LAN. Once that's done it can > issue DHCP leases to all your other systems, and then (for most > protocols) you can run as many machines as you like on your LAN using > that one cable company IP address. Only works if you use the exact same NIC as the first setup computer, which is normally a Windows box, if you had them install the service for you, since that's pretty much all they are willing to install. > The freedom to do this kind of thing is one of the advantages of > using free UNIXes, and one might as well take advantage of it. You can do it with Windows, as well. You have to install "Internet Connection Sharing", and the ethernet IP address of the Windows machine is required to be 192.168.0.1, and all of your interior hosts are required to be in the 192.168.0/24 netblock, and you take your chances unless you install a good firewall, but it works (it's an OK way to use VMware to use your winmodem to connect a FreeBSD laptop to the Internet). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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