From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 9 21:04:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA20920 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 21:04:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA20897 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 21:04:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id NAA21544; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 13:34:01 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971010133401.57367@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 13:34:01 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: R Nelson Cc: support@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: routed question References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from R Nelson on Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 10:42:48PM -0500 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 10:42:48PM -0500, R Nelson wrote: > I am wanting to confiure a proxy with 2 3Com nics and I am assuming that if > I get the 2 cards configured with the correct settings that all I will have > to do is configure the rc.conf to gateway="YES" ,route="YES" , and > route_flags="-s" for the 2 cards. I am planning on using squid. I was > planning on using the test class c on the intra side of 192.168.0.1 as one > of the nic addresses. > > Is there any surpresed info to get this up and going? What do you need routed for? If you're running a proxy, it can't help, but it might get in the way. A simple rule of thumb is that if you are only connected to non-local networks via a single interface, you don't need routed or gated. Does this fit your situation? Greg