From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 1 1:12:58 2002 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 81D6937B401 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 01:12:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC8DF43E77 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 01:12:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id gA19Cio27067; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:12:44 +0200 Message-Id: <200211010912.gA19Cio27067@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 1 Nov 02 11:11:05 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: Marc Schneiders , questions@freebsd.org, unixnoob@charter.net Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:10:59 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: FreeBSD Router/Firewall Questions References: <20021031171228.E52144-100000@skywalker.rogness.net> In-reply-to: <20021101021031.A17992-100000@voo.doo.net> X-info: Headers changed by Barricade 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 Hi! > > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, RD wrote: > > > > How do I connect this? Do I use 2 eithernets 1 to net and 1 to a hub? > If your ethernet card has two types of connectors (RJ45 aka UTP and > BNC [which is a thing that sticks out of the card]) then you could try > to connect the adsl-modem to the RJ45 and the rest of your stuff to > the BNC, which would save you the hub (as BNC is daisy chain) and one > network card. You're joking, right? The only Ethernet cards I know of which support connecting multiple network cables to one card are the really expensive 4-port RJ45 cards that have highly specialized hardware to basically act as 4 NICs on one board. Any plain $5 BNC/TP combo card certainly does NOT support connecting a cable to both BNC and TP connector! -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * If Windows sucked, it would be good for something. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message