From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 17 2:40:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web12802.mail.yahoo.com (web12802.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0DB137B403 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 02:40:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20011017094044.19800.qmail@web12802.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [61.11.40.157] by web12802.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 02:40:44 PDT Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 02:40:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Rohit Panda Subject: what to configure freebsd as :- gateway/router ??? To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1322232390-1003311644=:16330" 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 --0-1322232390-1003311644=:16330 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii hi, we are having a server(which is presently running Windows 2000 with microsoft proxy Winproxy) which is connected to the internet via a DSL modem connected to the USB port.Now the server has only a single NIC which is our local ethernet network and contains around 10 computers.The Server is used only to connect to the internet and nothing else.Now i have gone through some material ,but now iam confused whether to configure as a gateway/router??? i think gateway should do,but i just wanted to take u all's advice before jumping :).But another problem is that it says that the connection between our server and the ISP(of DSL) should be over pppoe.But ours is a USB modem.How is it possibel???can anybody throw some light on this?. any help will be highly appreciated rohit --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. --0-1322232390-1003311644=:16330 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

hi,

we are having a server(which is presently running Windows 2000 with microsoft proxy Winproxy) which is connected to the internet via a DSL modem connected to the USB port.Now the server has only a single NIC which is our local ethernet network and contains around 10 computers.The Server is used only to connect to the internet and nothing else.Now i have gone through some material ,but now iam confused whether to configure as a gateway/router??? i think gateway should do,but i just wanted to take u all's advice before jumping :).But another problem is that it says that the connection between our server and the ISP(of DSL) should be over pppoe.But ours is a USB modem.How is it possibel???can anybody throw some light on this?.

any help will be highly appreciated

rohit


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