Date: 27 Aug 2003 17:35:22 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: having problems with getting two interfaces running on FreeBSD 5.1 Message-ID: <443cfmn5r9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20030827073043.48998.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030827073043.48998.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com>
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Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> 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).
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