From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 10 18:56:43 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 18:56:41 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monochrome.org (monochrome.org [206.64.112.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E45137B400 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:56:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (faro [192.168.1.7]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA32500; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:56:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:56:31 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@localhost Reply-To: Chris Hill To: David Raistrick Cc: Sean Peck , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Configuring Gateway/NAT on Freebsd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, David Raistrick wrote: > On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Chris Hill wrote: > > > > > I have the public space entry for the single NIC card pointing to the > > > default router up in the ISP space... > > > > I don't know enough about networking to tell you exactly why this can't > > work, but I'm pretty sure it can't. Ethernet cards are cheap; is it > > worth this amount of trouble to save a measly few pence? > > (walking in in the middle..) > > This COULD be done with 1 ethernet card, at least in theory. Not sure the > specifics of how to get natd to do it, but it could theoretic be done..but > there is a condition that must be met. > > If the DSL modem is like the ones we provide it can ONLY talk to a single > MAC device. Ie, you could not plug the DSL modem into a hub. it must be > plugged into a ethernet port of a router/pc/etc. (and therefor this would > NOT work.) OK, so it's dependent on the hardware that one's DSL provider uses. > IF the unit can be on a multi-mac segment, then this could be done. (with > both ip networks residing on the same interface..) To tell the truth, it never occurred to me to try. But yes, I can see how this might be made to work. > But realisticly it would probably be better to segregate the two. Exactly my point. Actually this sounds like an interesting project (NATting with one interface), but maybe he's more interested in "getting the network up" than in "having an interesting project." Depends on his priorities... For an ordinary 10baseT ethernet card, I pay something like $10 US. To me, that's a reasonable price to pay for simplifying my life. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org [1] Bus error netscape To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message