Date: Mon, 7 Aug 95 22:03:47 CDT From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD networking question Message-ID: <9508080303.AA09843@iworks.InterWorks.org> In-Reply-To: <199508080231.MAA24673@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from "Michael Smith" at Aug 8, 95 12:01 (noon)
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> > Daniel M. Eischen stands accused of saying: > > Is it possible to configure a FreeBSD machine to be a gateway between > > a Workgroup for Windows subnet, an AppleTalk network, and another > > subnet of FreeBSD machines? The FreeBSD subnet has access to the > > Internet. How would such a machine be configured? > > What are you talking on the Appletalk network? Just Ethertalk, or a mix > with TCP/IP? (Or Localtalk, see below...) Actually, I found out today that the Mac network is Localtalk, and that most likely the only Ethernet capable Mac is the one I mentioned below. So it would have to sit on either the WfW network or the FreeBSD network, right? > > > Diagram: > > [SNIP] > > > > > > Currently, the Appletalk and WfW networks are not connected to anything. > > We'd like to connect those two networks together, and at the same time > > obtain access to the internet through the FreeBSD network which already > > has this capability. > > Yup, can do. You can put three ethernet cards in the FreeBSD machine > & configure it to route for all of them. > > > Without getting into a long story, our resources are limited because it > > takes too long to obtain needed hardware/software. What we do have is > > what you see above with two supported Ethernet cards in the FreeBSD gateway. > > There is also one Mac in the Appletalk network that has a copy of > > Mach Ten (TM) which is suppose to be BSD4.3, and an Ethernet controller. > > Um. Does this mean you're running a Localtalk network with the Macs, > or an ethernet? If the former, and the MachTen system is up all the > time, put it on the same ethernet as the FreeBSD machines and use it > to route for them. See below wrt. proxies. Yes, we should be able to keep the MachTen system up all the time. Even if it does come down on occaision, it's a heck of a lot more connection than they use to have! > > > We have legal IP addresses for the FreeBSD subnet, but may have to use > > some of those reserved IP addresses for internal use on the WfW and the > > Appletalk network. > > In that case you'll need to make sure the clients you intend to use will > work with proxy servers. You can build socks on the FreeBSD machine > without any difficulty, and a proxy web server comes with the FreeBSD > distribution (CERN), which should cover most of your needs. Great, thanks for the info! > > > Dan Eischen > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ > ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ > ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[ > Dan Eischen deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org
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