From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 18 16:01:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA20047 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 16:01:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA20042 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:01:15 GMT (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from EXIT10 (i485-gw.cetlink.net [209.198.15.97]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA24232; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 19:01:12 -0400 (EDT) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: Tom Jackson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2nd NIC & Gateway Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:03:17 GMT Message-ID: <353930f1.76227281@mail.cetlink.net> References: <19980418162440.27105@TOJ.org> In-Reply-To: <19980418162440.27105@TOJ.org> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id XAA20043 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 18 Apr 1998 16:24:40 -0500, Tom Jackson wrote: >This will seem a moronic question but I'm thinking about >setting up my home server as a gateway to my PPP connection >to my ISP. I think I know you need a second NIC on the server >but do not understand if its connected to anything (the modem?). One ethernet card for the local network and one serial port for the modem PPP link is all you need. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message