From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 3 08:17:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA02591 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 08:17:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mole.slip.net (mole.slip.net [207.171.193.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA02585 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 08:17:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from forrest@moosebear.com) Received: from [207.171.246.55] (helo=[192.168.0.64]) by mole.slip.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 1084zc-0003HU-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 08:17:32 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: forresth@pop.slip.net Message-Id: Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 08:17:08 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Forrest Howard Subject: Using freebsd as a router for small network Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a small network, which up to now been served by a farallon ISDN router. The farallon box supports address translation, allowing several machines to share a single ISP account. I have a DSL line on order, and I'd like to use a free bsd box (boxes?) to do the same function as the ISDN router. As I understand it the DSL line has a ethernet RJ-45, and the terminus is assigned a static IP address. Obviously the freebsd boxes would need two Ethernet NIC's. My questions regard configuration: 1) Natd of course looks like it is just the solution. 2) Do I need an additional firewall with natd? I couldn't tell for sure from the man pages 3) Do I need two machines? (or should I have 2 machines?) I'd like to run a proxy server (squid?) I'd like to run a Pop3 and SMTP server I'd like to run dhcp server If I run these on the natd macvhine, will things get confused? Are there security implications that wants me to run these on the intranet? 4) Are there other network services I want to configure. 5) Are there any pioneers out there that can warn me about the pitfalls I'm likely to encounter? Thank you in advance. Forrest To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message