From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 7 20:30:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 87B3416A420 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:30:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DCB643D45 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:30:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k27KTmKn052624; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:30:08 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <440DED32.8030700@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:29:38 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Huy Ton That References: <1cac28080603070729h255c7ee8gfaefd0743814454@mail.gmail.com> <20060307192850.15258e4d@localhost> <1cac28080603071044h50c33d84kb04cbf191e0bb525@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1cac28080603071044h50c33d84kb04cbf191e0bb525@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 192.168.0.1/24 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:30:55 -0000 Huy Ton That wrote: > This is great; thanks all for your assistance with the cidr notation > information. I successfully configured my fbsd box as a router & > am now working on firewall rules. This has made me realize that > my knowledge with networks, ips, and their classes is limited. > Do you have any recommendations as to books which may bring > me up to speed? Difficulty is not an issue; I have some time to > research these items. > > Thank you in advance, > > Lee Well, to add $0.02 from a F/OSS perspective: Chapter 16 of Greg Lehey's "The Complete FreeBSD" is pretty extensive; certainly a step beyond the Project's Handbook in regards to networking; in the later chapters he relates this knowledge to FreeBSD specifically. If you're subscribed to the list(s), you may be aware that Greg recently released the book *and* its source under a Creative Commons license: http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ Might be worth a look. Kevin Kinsey -- It's not whether you win or lose but how you played the game. -- Grantland Rice