From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 23 12:27:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED2A37B423 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 12:27:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4NJRIE28957 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 15:27:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200105231927.f4NJRIE28957@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: safely briding from internet to "localnet" From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 15:27:18 -0400 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 I'm still at a loss here; I'm probably asking the wrong questions. I have vmware successfully installed, and have networking between my machine and the virtual machine as a local network. What I'm not getting is how to get my machine to act as a gateway or bridge to the local network so that it can see the rest of the world. I understand that natd and/or ipfw are involved, but the man pages make it look like I'm playing with fire. All I want is for the machine to be a gateway for a "machine" on the "local" network that can be trusted absolutely, and to do absolutely nothing for any other machine in the world. There must be a simple way to do this, and probably even a page explaining it . . . hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message