From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 30 1: 7:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web14801.mail.yahoo.com (web14801.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.224.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F64337B417 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 01:07:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20011230090755.46238.qmail@web14801.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [203.150.14.77] by web14801.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 01:07:55 PST Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 01:07:55 -0800 (PST) From: pirat sriyotha Subject: router To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 hi sirs, apologize for asking a rather dumb question. i have three machines connected via bnc lan card. and they are all connected by coaxial cable. the first one is a gateway for the lan, sure it has a modem. they are all powered by FreeBSD-4.4 stable. with ppp -nat isp, i can access the Internet from any of my machines. now comes the problem. i have luckily additional machine run by ME and the lan card nowaday is twisted paired rj-45 connected. i can't find any of coaxial bnc connected lan card in my region. so i install rj-45 lan card to my exsting lan at the 3rd machine and the new one. i do not use a hub. but cross the signal line of cable that connected the new segment. so now my ne(o)twork looks like this FreeBSD(1){gateway}[bnc]--FreeBSD(2)[bnc]--FreeBSD(3)[bnc,rj-45]---ME[rj-45] i have tried setting up firewall + natd at the 3rd machine but it won't work. i mean my previous network can't see ME machine and ME machine can't access the Internet. that's all i have done. my question is that what should i do in order to let the ME machine being part of my network. please cc to me since i do not subscribe to the list. any helps or hints or suggestions would be appreciated. thanks in advance and apologize for my english. with best regards, psr __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message