From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 7 15:10:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B09B16A4B3 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:10:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com (smtp011.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BD0C43FDD for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:10:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ecrist@tech-con-inc.com) Received: from c-24-245-12-69.mn.client2.attbi.com (mnslinky@24.245.12.69 with plain) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Oct 2003 21:48:27 -0000 From: Eric F Crist Organization: Tech-Con, Inc To: "Tech Support" , "freebsd-questions" Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:48:10 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <5E833948-F8F3-11D7-8478-000A95A05832@skilltreeconsulting.com> <012401c38d07$76b95210$e400a8c0@ape> <06b101c38d0f$97710c20$0a00a8c0@a> In-Reply-To: <06b101c38d0f$97710c20$0a00a8c0@a> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_iSzg/cjLMpkiIu9"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200310071648.18362.ecrist@tech-con-inc.com> Subject: Re: Gateway / Port redirection X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ecrist@adtechintegrated.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 22:10:06 -0000 --Boundary-02=_iSzg/cjLMpkiIu9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 07 October 2003 03:14 pm, Tech Support wrote: ||Snip|| > My question(s) > > a) is this overkill ( is there an EASIER way to do what I want ( port > redirecting ) ( bearing in mind that although the lights are on in the > attic they are at times low wattage :-) ) > > b ) WHAT do I need to change on my BSD box ( rc.conf etc ) to make it > work the way described ? Remembering that this is only temporary . > > Thanks in advance for any advice > > Regards > > Benny Benny, As great as FreeBSD is, you'd probably get as much done with a lot less=20 headache if you used a broadband gateway/router. My Linksys BEFW11S4 has=20 done everything I need it to thus far. This particular devil has built-in= =20 802.11b wireless access, built-in DHCP server, port-forwarding, if you=20 purchase ZoneAlarm, you can input the purchase code and it will even act as= a=20 firewall! The only things it will NOT do include connecting to a dial-up=20 internet provider and it can't act as a proxy server, but you shouldn't nee= d=20 that with broadband, anyways. =20 What's great about the portforwarding is that it's not like the older ones,= =20 where you just told it what computer was the DMZ and EVERYTHING incoming go= t=20 forwarded. Now, you can tell it that port 22 is ssh and your ssh server is= =20 on the internal 192.168.0.4 computer and the web server is operating on por= t=20 80 on 192.168.0.5, etc, etc. I hope this helps. (In other words, there is an easier way to do this...) =2D-=20 Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (952) 403-9000 --Boundary-02=_iSzg/cjLMpkiIu9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/gzSiWxy3JtXvWloRAma5AKCnDgcNsogz08OTMLVLVV6QdU/7kwCfX5Sb +a3w/ei7opERoLlmziOOYgg= =Ek/t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_iSzg/cjLMpkiIu9--