From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 9 0:38: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 902D137B401 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 00:38:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 55287 invoked by uid 100); 9 Aug 2001 07:38:03 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15218.15835.824391.948878@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 02:38:03 -0500 To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: "Mike Meyer" , "Bob Collins" , Subject: RE: OT, Linksys router In-Reply-To: <004a01c1209b$042c0ce0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> References: <15218.8714.917019.176167@guru.mired.org> <004a01c1209b$042c0ce0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 [Context lost to top posting.] Ted Mittelstaedt types: > 3) You most certainly can shut off NAT on the Linksys and use it as a regular > IP router. We have several customers set up this way. I'd love to know how. It's not documented in the manual, and their tech support didn't have a clue about it. > Further discussion on this is probably going to lead nowhere in the absense of > IP numbers and subnet masks and such, even ficticious ones. You and I are > both guessing at his network topology. Bob, would you please be more > specific? Can't argue with that. While what I described will work under the right conditions, that may not be what he wants, and all the things you described would indeed case it to break. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message