Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 22:23:22 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "One Of Them" <skemokai@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using Cable Modem connection FreeBSD Message-ID: <200101290423.f0T4NMG00740@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "One Of Them" <skemokai@home.com> of "Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:03:46 PST." <000201c089bf$306ecae0$94e10941@adubn1.nj.home.com>
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For starters, HTML formatting of email is frowned upon by many, including myself. It looks like what I have left quoted below. Have recently learned the AOL 6.0 email client is broken and *always* interpretes HTML in incoming no matter that its Content-Type: is text/plain. As for connecting FreeBSD to most cablemodems, its very difficult and time consuming. You have to figure out how to run an editor such as vi or ee, then add/change a line in /etc/rc.conf to something like this: ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP" where fxp0 is my cablemodem NIC. On reboot dhclient will be started and will get an IP address from your ISP. If you have a static address (unlikely) then you would enter it on the above ifconfig line. Or most likely it would have been done for you in sysinstall when FreeBSD was installed. You can manually configure via DHCP as root by typing "dhclient fxp0" (again, fxp0 is my NIC). In an instant it sould return with new IP address, netmask, router, and DNS info. And it will have automatically put those in the proper places already. I strongly suggest the use of a firewall to limit what the bad guys can do incoming on your connection. Somebody tickles my ports 111 or 27374 a couple of times per day. Firewall logs it. And I send email to their upstream providers. Presumably the other two systems are Windows. So it would be a very very good idea to block ports 137, 138, and 139 both in and out. Also best to block everything incoming. SMC makes an interesting firewall/router/switch called a Barricade. Sells for under $100 at buy.com last I looked. Has a 4-port 10/100 switch for your internal network. A 10baseT port for the cable modem. Also has a parallel printer port to make a network printer out of a non-network printer. And a serial modem port so it can do its thing with an external modem if you don't have cable or DSL. If you put a second NIC in your FreeBSD machine then it can serve as the firewall for the other machines. /etc/rc.firewall is full of examples. As is the ususal online sources. "One Of Them" writes: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_0008_01C088B5.67372820 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi Everybody with the knowledge ..:) > > I have just got a modem cable connection and I want to run FreeBSD on = > it. I currently have it on win98 and I want to move it soon I find a way = > how to configure. I only have IP at the moment but I can order for more = > if needed. I to connect 3 PCs in the house. They are currently connected = > via hub. > > I seached the handbook a little bit but maybe somebody who has already = > done it maybe able to show where to go to get the correct info or just = > walk me thru the steps. > > Thanks > > <Saffa> > > This is Express Mailing List System > <=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D> > To subscribe/unsubscribe, send message to ejan@sulima.net > OR Visit http://www.sulima.net > > ------=_NextPart_000_0008_01C088B5.67372820 > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > <HTML><HEAD> > <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = > charset=3Diso-8859-1"> > <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4308.2900" name=3DGENERATOR> > <STYLE></STYLE> > </HEAD> > <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> > <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Hi Everybody with the knowledge ..:)</FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> > <DIV><FONT size=3D2>I have just got a modem cable connection and I want = > to run=20 > FreeBSD on it. I currently have it on win98 and I want to move it soon I = > find a=20 > way how to configure. I only have IP at the moment but I can order for = > more if=20 > needed. I to connect 3 PCs in the house. They are currently connected = > via=20 > hub.</FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> > <DIV><FONT size=3D2>I seached the handbook a little bit but maybe = > somebody who has=20 > already done it maybe able to show where to go to get the correct info = > or just=20 > walk me thru the steps.</FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> > <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Thanks</FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> > <DIV><FONT size=3D2><Saffa></FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> > <DIV><FONT size=3D2>This is Express Mailing List=20 > System<BR><=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D><BR>To subscribe/unsubscribe,=20 > send message to <A = > href=3D"mailto:ejan@sulima.net">ejan@sulima.net</A><BR>OR Visit=20 > <A=20 > href=3D"http://www.sulima.net">http://www.sulima.net</A></FONT></DIV></BO= > DY></HTML> > > ------=_NextPart_000_0008_01C088B5.67372820-- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. 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