Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:33:12 -0800 From: darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Home Network, step by step? Message-ID: <200412122133.18467.bulliver@badcomputer.org> In-Reply-To: <a832a7b9041212204846c889d0@mail.gmail.com> References: <a832a7b9041212204846c889d0@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart1736204.Ge4mWq6Bu6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline quoth the R. Scott Kennan: > Hey everyone, this is my first post. I'm a freebsd Newbie who really > doesn't know much at all yet, so please excuse my probably lame > question. > > At any rate, I need to network two computers- my BSD box, and one > running Mandrake Linux 9.2 (for now). I also need to share my > internet connection. Actually the internet connection sharing is more > important. What steps do I need to take? All the pages I've brought up > seem to assume some prior knowledge of both networking and/or Unix (I > have absoultely none), and I apparently don't even know enough to > recognise the information in the FreeBSD handbook. I installed FreeBSD > to learn, but I'm totally lost in this matter. > > If anyone can help me, or tell me to RTFM (as long as you point out > the manual) I'd appreciate it. Once again, Sorry for the dumb > question. Thanks. > > -R. Scott Kennan There are a couple ways you can accomplish this. First, and easiest, is sim= ply=20 to go to your local big-block computer store and purchase yourself a switch= =2E=20 These can be had for ~$50 Plug the switch into your <internet facing device= >=20 and plug your two boxes into the switch. Configure them both to obtain an I= P=20 using dhcp. Your done. In this example <internet facing device> is=20 presumably a cable or adsl modem. You need to explain how you access the=20 internet. The second, and more educational way is to equip and configure either your= =20 freebsd or linux box to do NAT/Masq. This will require you to have two=20 ethernet cards in the router. Essentially you are just daisy chaining the=20 computers physically in this example. As for setup of the NAT, I only know= =20 how to do this on linux myself, so I hope someone more knowlegable can poin= t=20 us _both_ to some docs on NAT/Masq on freebsd.=20 =2Dd =2D-=20 darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." =2D Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 --nextPart1736204.Ge4mWq6Bu6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBvSmewPD5Cr/3CJgRAvclAKD265qDaVJpuI3am5ba/yUsObQwOACgvrbq g+xIjGUMswllD/iWiTjSriY= =rqdl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1736204.Ge4mWq6Bu6--
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