From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 8:41:50 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 08:41:47 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-56-41.knology.net [24.214.56.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDDFE37B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 08:41:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f04GfNx20641; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:41:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:41:23 -0600 From: David Kelly To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two NICs In FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010104104123.A20623@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <20010104002809.U292@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010104011520.M95729@rfx-64-6-211-149.users.reflexco> <20010104151542.E54749@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010104151542.E54749@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>; from wash@iconnect.co.ke on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:15:42PM +0300 Sender: dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:15:42PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > May I also chip in with my ? now that the saga is still on. > I intend to have 2 NICS on a FreeBSD box. I intend to have one NIC > connected to the LAN but on the second NIC I want to attach, using a > crossover cable, a DSL modem (Zyxel Prestige 128L) configured as a a > bridge. That's not quite the same thing as we've been discussing. Multiple NICs in FreeBSD work perfectly well, and as a gateway as you describe. The original posting placed both NICs on the same net, hub/switch. Possibly in order to have multiple IP addresses. Yet within the same netmask. I asked what good was this supposed to do as one can put multiple IP addresses on a single interface in FreeBSD. What you plan is perfectly sane, reasonble, and common. Just remember the DSL modem and NIC you connect to it are on a different network than your inside LAN. -- 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