From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 31 6:53:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dv-db.com (dv-db.com [207.159.141.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BCA737B401 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 06:53:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dvdnews.co.uk) Received: from mark2 (host217-34-95-50.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.34.95.50]) by dv-db.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA23302; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:53:29 +0100 (GMT/BST) Message-ID: <038201c119c8$2b81b940$0200a8c0@mark2> From: "Mark Hughes" To: "Todd Reed" , References: Subject: Re: BSD as Router and Firewall Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:52:45 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've got an old 166 at home and I'm would like to make it into a > Firewall/router. I've got two Nics on it. One would go to my LAN (3 other > PC's) w/static IP's and the other goes to a DHCP cable modem. Is this > something that is possible or would I be better off getting a Linksys or > Netger Firewall/Router? I'd like to be able to browse the internet, etc > from my other computers instead of just one! Any good tutorials right off > hand? I've one ran across a few. It's more than possible. There's a few good tutorials at http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd, or just searching at google can be fruitful. Do your internal PCs have static real IPs, or private ones? If private ones, look into natd. HTH, Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message