From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 29 11:16:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3052B37B43C for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 11:16:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:15:23 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14tvj4-0003D1-00; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:15:18 +0100 Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:15:17 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: trini0 Cc: questions Subject: Re: General Networking ? In-Reply-To: <3AEC1C06.4050003@optonline.net> 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 On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, trini0 wrote: > Hi. I currently have a box running firewall/gateway with ipf/ipnat, > which is in turn split up by a 5 port switch to my other 3 boxes. Im > about to put a box at my mother's (hope she doesn't see the beastie > logo), so that the cable connection could be split to my brother & > sister. I was thinking of not using a switch/hub, and use 3 nics in the > gateway box. Is it doable? I just need a 'go' or 'no go' It's doable, yes; maybe borderline as to whether it's cost-effective. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Prolog in JavaScript: http://tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~cmjg/logic/prolog-latest To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message