From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 14:45:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B94E16A4C0 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:45:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFE4243FE3 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:45:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.no-ip.com[66.30.200.37]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2003082721352701400hojkne>; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:35:27 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7RLZMN9044794 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:35:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.6/Submit) id h7RLZMOI044791; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:35:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f Sender: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030827073043.48998.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 27 Aug 2003 17:35:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030827073043.48998.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <443cfmn5r9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: having problems with getting two interfaces running on FreeBSD 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:45:32 -0000 Bsd Neophyte writes: > hmmm... you're the second person to tell me this that i need the > interfaces to be on separate subnets. They don't *need* to be, but there's rarely a reason to do otherwise. > my prime purpose is to have this device act as my PDC and a proxy server. > i want all proxy request to go into one interface and have the other fetch > everything. Why do you want them on different interfaces anyway? > is there anyway to keep them on the same subnet? i have a router that > handles the routing, so i really don't need anything else to do routing. > i simply want all web requests to go through this server, and have it > cache web sites and to provide some sort of protection. If I recall correctly, I think squid can act as a transparent proxy. You might be able to do that in a bridging mode, even. However, it's probably easier to just configure the various machines to use the proxy (and enforce it with firewalling, if necessary).