From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 10 11:41:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5DD016A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:41:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7431F43D31 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:41:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ben.haysom@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id b11so204710rne for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 03:41:34 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=C54o8oMCHkh0f7G1AvKPuRxPivXhx7gHF8as/ULaNjveJg8cf0IhiOE7/24oGjDYcShpy0P6VZhdTvnnKyEM8YJ929uyfyIT+cFktZ4N2PBVM0EPdVF8tkhwDlcxybAhsX1brCfDOxhQuB0ZVUoyGRRL8/YuF9Ung3LfN/68cq4= Received: by 10.38.207.49 with SMTP id e49mr248959rng; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 03:41:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.208.38 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 03:41:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:41:34 +0000 From: Ben Haysom To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200411101102.30850.Emanuel.Strobl@gmx.net> <20041110100927.GA6429@math.jussieu.fr> Subject: Re: Hello List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Ben Haysom List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:41:35 -0000 ASCII Sketch: ADSL---DSL-300T----rl0 in Unix Box sis0 in Box---Rest of internal network. . rl0 and sis0 are network cards. What is top posting? I can't afford to 'buy a router'. The modem wiped me out. On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:40:08 +0000 (GMT), Jan Grant wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Ben Haysom wrote: > > > > > Thing is, it should be so straightforward, but I've stumped loads of > > people with it. > > > > I have a small home network, atm an XP PC, a XP laptop, and the > > FreeBSD 5.1 machine. > > I am connected to the internet with an unknown modem from my ISP. > > > > I've bought a D-Link 300 and attched it to the FreeBSD Box. > > I want to use that to connect to my ADSL, and have the rest of the > > network share the connction. > > Part of the network is wireless, the rest standard Cat5 with a 4 port > > Netgear hub. > > > > I can't get it to work. > > > > Obviously that ain't enough details, what else do I need to post? > > ASCII sketch of a network diagram (or a better description); what your > goal for the role of the freebsd machine is (eg, everything talking to > that as gateway, that doing connection sharing). > > [offlist because it's just a "here's what information you might want to > supply; please go back to the list with the answers though] > > -- > jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ > Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ > Just because I have nothing to hide doesn't mean I have nothing to fear. >