From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 31 10:41:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from everest.netidea.com (everest.netidea.com [207.194.161.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E265115096 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:41:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gregm@netidea.com) Received: from Main (pm162-54.dialup.netidea.com [207.194.162.54]) by everest.netidea.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA15675; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:39:11 -0800 Message-Id: <199903311839.KAA15675@everest.netidea.com> From: gregm@netidea.com To: Rick Knebel Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:42:00 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Home Network Reply-To: gegm@netidea.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <37023E2A.166FB8C6@uplink.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes you'll need a hub and ethernet cards for each. I don't know where to look for mac configuration but this tutorial works for the freebsd and windows (I used it to set up 3 win98 machines and a freebsd machine and found it very good for everything but the DNS) http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ppp/ppp.html For DNS I understand there is a good tutorial at: http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd/ and Greg Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD covers it very well Good luck, Greg Martin gregm@netidea.com > Hi, > I am in the very early stages of trying to put together a home network > and would like to run it bye a few people to see if it is possible > before I go all out. > > I have three computers. One which will be running FreeBSD 3.1. A MAC and > a Win 98 machine. > > Obviously the FreeBSD machine will be the server. I have a static IP > adress from my ISP and would like to connect to the internet with my 56K > modem and network the other two to this so they two can get onto the > internet .I guess via a gateway I supply with the FreeBSD machine. > > I know the this could get bogged down if all three machines are trying > to do something at the same time, but this would be rare. > > I know this is very vague and I have alot of reading to do, but is this > sort of thing possible. > > I guess I would need an ethernet card in each machine and a hub?? > > Thanks > Rick > > > > > > 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