From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 2 15:58:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cqos1.cqos.com (ppp-64-160-241-125.cqos.com [64.160.241.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2FCB37B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:58:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Sknox@CQOS.COM) Received: by CQOS1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:58:50 -0700 Message-ID: <550B4D6FA776D3118D1D00902799170C608988@CQOS1> From: Sean Knox To: 'Matthew Hagerty' , bstephens@regionsmortgage.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Using FreeBSD server as a router??? Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:58:46 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 Check out Zebra (www.zebra.org); it's able to route RIP, RIPv2, OSPF, and BGP. Pretty slick program. -Sean -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Hagerty [mailto:mhagerty@voyager.net] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 11:47 AM To: bstephens@regionsmortgage.com; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD server as a router??? 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message