From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 25 15:44:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu (jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 231D11506D for ; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:44:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@miami.edu) Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu ("port 3431"@jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by jaguar.ir.miami.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #30976) with ESMTP id <0FH100CLBLTR6E@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 18:44:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 18:44:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" Subject: Re: Macintosh => FreeBSD => Internet In-reply-to: To: Ken Seggerman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can check out a paper I wrote on this at http://jaguar.ir.miami.edu/~marcus/clarkead.pdf. It's fairly old, but most of it is still applicable. It's describes how to setup a Macintosh-based office to connect to the Internet using FreeBSD as a router/firewall (it assumes dialing to an ISP using user-ppp). Joe Clarke On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Ken Seggerman wrote: > Greetings: > > I am thinking about connecting a Macintosh (as client) to my PC (as > server) running FreeBSD 3.1 via an ethernet link. > > Once this connection is up and running, would I then be able to open a > dial-up PPP connection on the PC to my ISP and communicate (telnet, ftp, > http) from both machines simultaneously over the single PPP connection? > > Would I be able to add a third machine (such as a laptop running FreeBSD) > over ethernet without using a router? > > Thanks > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message