Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 02:57:05 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@zeus.theinternet.com.au> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Satellite link drivers (was Re: backbone connections in Australia) Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19981004025705.00779ecc@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9810021130040.321-100000@aniwa.sky> References: <199809280702.RAA28040@zeus.theinternet.com.au>
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At 11:34 AM 10/2/98 +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote: >Has anyone looked into drivers to run the satellite dish directly from >FreeBSD, or do people use windows boxes for that? > >Would the need to route outgoing traffic via a different interface from >incoming traffic create any major problems for doing this under freebsd? Dunno on the first, but as for the 2nd I see no reason why not. Outbound to the net via connection of your choice being the default gateway and everything comes back via the dish. This might be a problem with a firewalled setup, but it should just look like a dual-homed connection. Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking jeff@mountin.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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