From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 13 12:45:23 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 BA42B16A4CE for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:45:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cathy.bmts.com (cathy.bmts.com [216.183.128.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5487F43D3F for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:45:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rhempel@bmts.com) Received: from PC300GL (cheetah-bar-ppp036.bmts.com [216.183.159.37]) by cathy.bmts.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i7DCkidI011044 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:46:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ralph Hempel" To: Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:49:25 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <200408122027.04031.mfcardenas@prodigy.net.mx> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4927.1200 Importance: Normal X-bmts-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-bmts-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-MailScanner-From: rhempel@bmts.com Subject: RE: ADSL internet + router X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: rhempel@bmts.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:45:23 -0000 > Am about to get an ADSL internet connection... there are two devices > available, an ADSL modem and a router... the modem should not have a problem > to work (I have one at office), but have a doubt with the router and don't > know which device aquire... > > I have my local network configured with private addresses in the range > 192.168.0.* and GATEWAY=192.168.0.x (the ip of the server with firewall)... > My question is... would I be able with the router to use it as gateway > without assigning dynamic addresses via DHCP? I want to preserve my static > private addresses 192.168.0.* with a GATEWAY=... configuration, is that > possible? > > In the worst case I can setup a firewall and use one of my computers as > gateway with 2 ethernet cards, one for the router and the other for my LAN... I have an ADSL modem, and I plug that into my wireless router. It's address is 192.168.1.1 and it acts as the gateway. I can also configure it (via braowser interface) to forward packets from the internet to specific machines on my network, on a port by port basis. I also use a dynamic DNS service, so that it just magically works. Here's a little article I worte on it: The dynamic DNS bit is at the end... Ralph