Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:58:34 +0800 (WST) From: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> To: darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Home Network, step by step? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0412131353180.21871@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <200412122133.18467.bulliver@badcomputer.org> References: <a832a7b9041212204846c889d0@mail.gmail.com> <200412122133.18467.bulliver@badcomputer.org>
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On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, darren kirby wrote: > There are a couple ways you can accomplish this. First, and easiest, is simply > to go to your local big-block computer store and purchase yourself a switch. > These can be had for ~$50 Plug the switch into your <internet facing device> > and plug your two boxes into the switch. Configure them both to obtain an IP > using dhcp. Your done. In this example <internet facing device> is > presumably a cable or adsl modem. You need to explain how you access the > internet. Darren, This will not always work. Case in point: The SB5100 Cable Modem. It's just a bridge device. > The second, and more educational way is to equip and configure either your > freebsd or linux box to do NAT/Masq. This will require you to have two > ethernet cards in the router. Essentially you are just daisy chaining the > computers physically in this example. As for setup of the NAT, I only know > how to do this on linux myself, so I hope someone more knowlegable can point > us _both_ to some docs on NAT/Masq on freebsd. To do NAT/IP Masquerading, you're probably best off in the long run learning how to use one of FreeBSD's fine packet-filtering firewalls: the relatively new (to FreeBSD) OpenBSD's pf or the somewhat older ipf. I recommend pf - it works very well for me. The FreeBSD Handbook contains information on firewalls: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls.html The pf section is short and sweet to get you up and running with pf: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-pf.html I hope that helps you. (And finally, freebsd-newbies is the WRONG LIST for these queries.) Cheers, David Adam --- zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
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