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Date:      Mon, 10 May 2004 12:16:50 +0930
From:      "Jeffrey P. Toth" <jtoth@attech.net.au>
To:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Network Help
Message-ID:  <409EED1A.2000609@attech.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <20040510052826.02711d1b@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro>
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Thank you for your response Ion-Mihai,

On the router question, no, the router is a separate device, a D-Link 
504H but is a loaner while my D-Link 804HV is in the shop. After 
changing them out is when I discovered I had problems. Apparently the 
DL804 handled whatever the problem was without a complaint.

Yes I have been through setup a few times. So far all I have been able 
to do is take the server off-line.

I have also looked up setup for NATD and I think I can enable it but 
would not be able to write the firewall rules for it to read yet, as I 
understand needs to be done. I also had a little help with setup 
originally and I know there is something of a firewall setup but without 
know what exactly I would be afraid of interfering with what is there 
and making a mess of it.

Sorry I am such a non-user.

Jeff





Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:

>On Mon, 10 May 2004 11:24:02 +0930
>"Jeffrey P. Toth" <jtoth@attech.net.au> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Thanks Dave,
>>
>>       I am sure the problem is that I do not have the networking on the 
>>FreeBSD box setup correctly. Anyway, 3 computers on the network, 1 
>>FreeBSD, 1 XP and 1 Win98. All connected to router at IP xxx.xxx.xxx.1. 
>>The FreeBSD machine is set and should be set to xxx.xxx.xxx.150. OK, all 
>>work fine until, I try to call up the the static IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, or 
>>call up and of the websites by http: from a browser or using lynx on the 
>>FreeBSD box, I get an error: Alert!: Unexpected network read error; 
>>connection aborted or on the Win boxes the browser just times out. 
>>Shortly after or at the timeout, the router freezes and I have to power 
>>reboot it.
>>    
>>
>
>This shouldn't happen what ever you configured you box (I mean from
>networking point of view).
>
>  
>
>>       I am very sure that this is because I have not properly set it up 
>>and the error is just a symptom of that. In rc.conf for settings all I 
>>have right now is:
>>
>>ifconfig_xl0="inet 192.168.0.150 netmask 255.255.255.0"
>>defaultrouter="192.168.0.1"
>>
>>       I have read a lot about it and suspect this isn't right but 
>>really not sure how to make the change. I think it should be:
>>
>>ifconfig_xl0="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"    #static IP address
>>ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.0.150 netmask 255.255.255.0"
>>    
>>
>
>Well, I don't understand if you use you FreeBSD box as a router or not.
>
>If yes, then you should have something like:
>hostname="buh.cameradicommercio.ro"
>ifconfig_rl0="inet 81.196.25.19   netmask 255.255.255.0"
>ifconfig_rl1="inet 192.168.0.1  netmask 255.255.255.0"
>defaultrouter="81.196.25.1"
>
>where rl0 would be your outside interface connencted to your upstream
>provider's router with ip address 81.196.25.1 and rl1 would be the
>inside interface connected to a hub/switch with the internal machines.
>
>You would also want to use natd on the router, because 192.168/24 is a
>private address space. So you would add to you rc.conf:
>natd_enable="YES"
>natd_interface="rl0"
>firewall_enable="YES"
>firewall_type="OPEN"
>
>You need FIREWALL="YES" for natd to work.
>
>All this is very well explained in the FreeBSD Handbook, tahe a look at:
>6.8 Setting Up Network Interface Cards
>19.3 Wireless Networking
>  
>



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