Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 22:54:54 -0800 From: Steve Wingate <steve@velosystems.net> To: "Donnie Jones" <donniejones18@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD router setup. Message-ID: <20011207225454.78ad4e14.steve@velosystems.net> In-Reply-To: <20011208050527.27072.qmail@web20610.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20011208050527.27072.qmail@web20610.mail.yahoo.com>
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There are articles on ipfw and ipfilter at www.freebsddiary.org, not to mention the handbook at www.freebsd.org. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls.html Please try to get in the habit of consulting these resources before posting questions to the list (not that I always do). On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 21:05:27 -0800 (PST) "Donnie Jones" <donniejones18@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > I am in dire need of help, as is probably most who > email this list. :) > > I have researched, read, attempted, and thrown things, > but all of this is to no avail for me to be able to > set up freebsd as a router. > > My setup consists of a 75mhz pentium with 800mb hard > drive, and two ethernet cards, both intel ether > express pro 100's ( fxp0, fxp1 ). > > I've set it up where the ethernet comes from the cable > modem to the first ethernet card, then another cable > from the second ethernet card to my 8-port ethernet > switch. > > >From the ethernet switch the cables are ran their > respective ethernet cards. > > Now, since I haven't been able to accomplish this on > my own, I want to start over anew. If someone could > please email me back with a detailed description of > how to set up the computer using FreeBSD as a router, > preferable using a dhcpd server to set the ip's on the > rest of the network, but it would also be helpful to > know how to set the ip's without dhcpd. > > I hope to use this information to then edit some more > and add some of the trials and tribulations that I've > encountered then post it on the web as a FreeBSD > router howto of sorts. > > Thank you all very much, and I am sorry for the length > of my email. > > Pleading, > > Donnie Jones > > > __________________________________________________ > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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