From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 11 20:12: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA71A14CA9 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 20:12:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id XAA07742; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:11:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903120411.XAA07742@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Networking Question In-Reply-To: <36E8860F.9A3CC14E@optonline.net> from Mystiq at "Mar 11, 99 10:12:15 pm" To: mystiq@optonline.net (Mystiq) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:11:26 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mystiq wrote, > Currently, im using WinGate, Win9x proxy software, to route my cable > modem between 3 other computers. Someone mentioned, after i complained > WinGate blocking certain ports (specifically ping), that Free BSD would > also do the trick. You do not want to block ICMP? OK, your net. > I went on IRC a few days later, and was told it was really hard to set > up. Depends what you want to do. If you are basically setting up a gateway machine, it is not 'really hard.' > I haven't installed it yet, partly because it refuses to recognize > either of my server's two NICs, a 3Com Etherlink III and Intel > EtherExpress Pro 10. From 'http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install:nics.html,' a listing of supported Ethernet cards, Intel EtherExpress Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B 100Mbit. . . . 3Com 3C590, 3C595 Etherlink III What do you mean by 'it' refused to recoginze them? What are you booting? > I've never used any unix-os, and was just wondering > if I would be able to use any port as if each machine was directly > connected to the internet, and if it is hard to set up? Never used UNIX? OK, it's not gonna be 'really hard,' but it probably will not be really easy either. If you are interested in learning networking, you are going to have to learn some UNIX eventually. And yes, it would be no problem to allow _all_ packets through your gateway no matter what port destination. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message