From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 13 04:48:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3604516A4CE for ; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 04:48:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D525343D1F for ; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 04:48:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rskennan@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z35so610407rne for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:48:55 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=aXkTGm9ryfag5l2JUi8XIa22/XMhQhVnX+hZ2516wtYh+H4+9Cka0NnkaWKjWKE59tEcY75rX36zwYBX7wDIedAB/Ddc3U35vdDJbtX0dnzdIywU4xCu8FkQrEJBXQ6lDEDVUJ+pH+fgFeV2FeNxakPgVLWJPBAEQH5ndWhxLLQ= Received: by 10.38.75.31 with SMTP id x31mr670279rna; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:48:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.126.66 with HTTP; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:48:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 23:48:55 -0500 From: "R. Scott Kennan" To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Home Network, step by step? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "R. Scott Kennan" List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 04:48:56 -0000 Hey everyone, this is my first post. I'm a freebsd Newbie who really doesn't know much at all yet, so please excuse my probably lame question. At any rate, I need to network two computers- my BSD box, and one running Mandrake Linux 9.2 (for now). I also need to share my internet connection. Actually the internet connection sharing is more important. What steps do I need to take? All the pages I've brought up seem to assume some prior knowledge of both networking and/or Unix (I have absoultely none), and I apparently don't even know enough to recognise the information in the FreeBSD handbook. I installed FreeBSD to learn, but I'm totally lost in this matter. If anyone can help me, or tell me to RTFM (as long as you point out the manual) I'd appreciate it. Once again, Sorry for the dumb question. Thanks. -R. Scott Kennan