From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 11 9: 3:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68D6A37B405 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:03:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfm@blueyonder.co.uk) Received: from lexx.my.domain ([62.31.194.122]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:03:09 +0100 From: John Murphy To: "Miroslav Pendev" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rogers@home UNIX problem Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:03:32 +0100 Organization: poor Reply-To: jfm@blueyonder.co.uk Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 "Miroslav Pendev" wrote: >I have local network at home and I have just installed Rogers@Home >Cable Modem Internet access. I was thinking of FreeBSD Firewall >and NAT box to connect my home network to Internet. > >I have install FreeBSD 4.3 with two NICs, and they both works >just fine - I can ping others in my home network from the >FreeBSD box (from the both nics). > >But I have problem in connecting the FreeBSD box to Internet - >I have try to ping something in Internet but there was only >request timeout messages or even nothing!!! I don't know about rogers@home but my ISP requires that only one nic, for which they know the MAC address, is used to connect to the cable modem. >(I know my Roger's IP address, net mask, gateway. I use DNS >server from other IS provider.) > >When I put all this (IP, MASK ..) in Windows box - windows have >internet connection and I can ping everything. > >But from FreeBSD - nothing. I have try to change the NICs >(wich one is inside and wich outside (IP's, mask and gateways also)) Have you tried using the nic from the Windows box? >And there is one more problem: > >I have Web cam wich is with build in UNIX (Idont know what kind) >- she is standalone, and I have problem in pinging this camera from = internet=20 >even when she is connected DIRECTLY to the cable modem. She sounds nice :) Make/model number? I expect you can find relevant info by web-searching. It probably works on specific port numbers if it really is TCP/IP aware. >When someone from internet try to ping the Web camera or the >FreeBSD box I can see the blinking light for incoming data in >the camera's NIC indicator. >But the packets never get outside my modem (or gateway) > >The same is for FreeBSD box also. It looks like the IP packets >never get outside my cable modem (or gateway) from FreeBSD and >this WebCam, But they get out from Windows. ?!!?!?! Did you have to install a particular driver for it in Windows? >Is there somekind of MTU settings or ... I dont know .... for >blockin all packets that are not comming from Windows or >just this Cable modem is not working. Make sure you have gateway_enable=3D"YES" in /etc/rc.conf >(I have other FreeBSD box connected to Inernet with cable modem >(in the other place (Toronto) and he works perfect!!! >but this FreeBSD box that is in Mississauga just can not >get outside from the gateway ;-( Looks a good place for a web-cam. Will it be available to the public? Try to make it as good as this one: http://www.thebiginter.net/webcam_main.htm# John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message