From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 18:56:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA00986 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 18:56:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dns2.noc.best.net (dns2.noc.best.net [206.86.0.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA00952 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 18:56:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mitchj.oz.net (Cust1.Max4.Seattle.WA.MS.UU.NET [153.36.125.1]) by dns2.noc.best.net (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id SAA12448; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 18:55:55 -0700 Message-Id: <199609250155.SAA12448@dns2.noc.best.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Mitch James" Organization: James Lumber & Ace Hardware To: Sean Kelly , questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:03:39 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Private network & routing to the internet via PPP w/one Reply-to: mitch@hardware.com Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42a) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 24 Sep 96 at 9:55, Sean Kelly wrote: > Mitch James wrote: > > My question is: Can > > FreeBSD 2.1.5 route the trafic for a private IP network as it comes on the > > CD-Rom without any other software? > > It sure can. I do this with my systems at home: one FreeBSD host has a > ppp connection to the Internet and an Ethernet interface to all the > other FreeBSD hosts. You just need to edit /etc/sysconfig and set the > gateway option to YES: > > # If you want this host to be a gateway, set to YES. > gateway=YES I've done this, however I think I have something screwy with my configuration and routing. I'm using RFC 1597 private network IP's in the 192.168.0.0 range. > Also, make sure you've set up routing correctly. Then, reboot your > system. > If you'd like to see copies of my /etc/sysconfig and related files, let > me know and I'll pass them along. Yes Please, I've searched the archives for some good examples. I think most of these discussions have gone private before they get to the archives. I do best with a starting point to understand what the manual says. If I can't make it work with an example I post ALL the ugly details of what I've done to myself. ;-) Cheers, Mitch ________________________________________________________________ Mitch James--Poulsbo, Wa Living near Latte' Land mitch@hardware.com James Lumber & Ace Hardware http://www.hardware.com/ Webmaster@waweb.com http://www.hardware.com/complist.html ________________________________________________________________