From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 7 15:29:07 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 2E1C516A4BF for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:29:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bennymid.flatrate.net.au (bennymid.com [203.24.105.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 016FC43F85 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:29:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tech@bennymid.com) Received: (qmail 870 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2003 22:29:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO a) (192.168.0.10) by bennymid.com with SMTP; 7 Oct 2003 22:29:00 -0000 Message-ID: <079a01c38d22$654aa0e0$0a00a8c0@a> From: "Tech Support" To: "freebsd-questions" References: <5E833948-F8F3-11D7-8478-000A95A05832@skilltreeconsulting.com> <012401c38d07$76b95210$e400a8c0@ape> <06b101c38d0f$97710c20$0a00a8c0@a> <200310071648.18362.ecrist@tech-con-inc.com> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:28:54 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 26/09/03), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: Gateway / Port redirection X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 22:29:07 -0000 Eric you wrote ~~~~~ s great as FreeBSD is, you'd probably get as much done with a lot less headache if you used a broadband gateway/router. My Linksys BEFW11S4 has done everything I need it to thus far. This particular devil has built-in 802.11b wireless access, built-in DHCP server, port-forwarding, if you ~~~~~~~ I am moving to that suggestion in 1 - 2 months time so what I am after is a temporary measure for this transition period.... regards and thanks Benny Moshin Thank you for your suggestion . I am reading up on that now to see if its within my scope .. The BSD box is running like a dream for well over 12 months now and I don't want to break it going into areas I am not sure of .. I'll let yo know the result Thank you Benny Don't throw your PC out the window, throw Windows out of the PC