From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 17:39: 3 2002 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 A993337B401 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:39:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-34-52.knology.net [24.214.34.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E935443E42 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:39:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9N0cvGe038948; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 19:38:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9N0cvpq038947; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 19:38:57 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Kelly To: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net, Walter Subject: Re: Mac can't connect to Internet Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 19:38:54 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" References: <20021022112154.B7681-100000@babelfish.pursued-with.net> In-Reply-To: <20021022112154.B7681-100000@babelfish.pursued-with.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200210221938.54688.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 22 October 2002 01:24 pm, Kevin Stevens wrote: > > Two things: > > - Is the FreeBSD box set to act as a router (packet forwarding on)? > If another machine behind the BSD box can connect to the Internet > it would answer that question. > > - Is the FreeBSD box set as the default router in the OS X box' > settings? To which I'll add that it was not obvious in the original posting whether or not the FreeBSD system had two NICs or whether everything was connected to the hub/switch including cable modem. Walter said the firewall was disabled. So I'm guessing he is a long way from getting the Mac connected. Would be surprised if he has more than one IP address from his ISP (earthlink?), which would be required without NAT. And the firewall is needed to apply the divert rule to get NAT. In setting up my firewall I found this URL very handy: http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ Specifically is this one which I believe was the most help: http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ipfw.html -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message