From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 14:53:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com (dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com [64.193.218.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1369437B42C for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 14:53:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lucas@slb.to) Received: (qmail 21796 invoked by uid 1000); 15 May 2001 21:53:29 -0000 Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 16:53:29 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman To: Tyler K McGeorge Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NAT with 1 NIC? Message-ID: <20010515165329.B7265@billygoat.slb.to> Reply-To: lucas@slb.to References: <000d01c0dd60$80f34780$732b7c18@lawrence.ks.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000d01c0dd60$80f34780$732b7c18@lawrence.ks.us>; from treznor@sunflower.com on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:00:11PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am trying to set up a NAT server for my local network. My internet > connection is a cable modem. From what I understand, I should need > two NICs, one for each network I will be on. Right. > However, my roommate (on his Slackware box) has accomplished this > with only one NIC, using IP aliasing. No one ever said it couldn't be done; it is evil, though, for several reasons. Don't do it. Instead, do everyone a favor and pony up the $30 for a second NIC, and encourage your roommate to do the same. > I was wondering if we have anything similar to this? FreeBSD supports the kind of thing you're talking about (grep for 'alias' in ifconfig(8)). Seriously, please fork over the $30. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message