From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 2 11:45:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.mx.voyager.net (mail3.mx.voyager.net [216.93.66.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3635537B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:45:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhagerty@voyager.net) Received: from thunderbird.voyager.net (216-93-124-123.mdmmi.voyager.net [216.93.124.123]) by mail3.mx.voyager.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f72IjTU80651; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 14:45:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20010802144656.026f8e18@pop.voyager.net> X-Sender: mhagerty@pop.voyager.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 14:47:07 -0400 To: bstephens@regionsmortgage.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Matthew Hagerty Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD server as a router??? In-Reply-To: <86256A9C.0063216C.00@smtp.regionsmortgage.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 At 12:53 PM 8/2/2001 -0500, bstephens@regionsmortgage.com wrote: >I have been combing the freebsd.org site for the last two days >attempting to find some documentation on how to configure and use a >FreeBSD server as a router. I have found some information on >configuring the server as a bridge as well as a filtering bridge, but >no router info. Does anyone have any leads on some info? There seems >to be a number of such articles/books for doing a similar feet under >Linux, but I can't seem to find any such documentation for FreeBSD. I >have been wondering about using the filtering bridge scheme. It would >provide the segmentation of traffic that I need but does it provide >routing tables, shortest data path info, etc. as a router would? Any >assistance is appreciated. Put 2 NIC cards in the FreeBSD box, configure them, and add this line to the /etc/rc.conf file: gateway_enable="YES" Now you have a router. You only need more of a router if you are doing route determination, i.e. 3 or more other routers are connected to your router. And if you are in that situation I would suspect you would not be posting this question. The routed daemon that does RIP routing, etc. is not needed if you have only 1 uplink (to your ISP.) or your routes are static. Matthew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message