From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 6 17:46:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freenet.nether.net (freenet.nether.net [204.42.253.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F56C37B502 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 17:46:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (morix@localhost) by freenet.nether.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e970kpI28289 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 20:46:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 20:46:50 -0400 (EDT) From: moritz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: routing with ipfw Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello, i want to make my freebsd machine route packets from my lan to the internet. i think it is ok to use ipfw and its easy to use, but every kind of documentation says i should work with the routing table and all that stff. i am a bit confused. what are the differences? do i have a wrong image of what a router is? please explain? and what is the best solution for my problem? thank you in advance. moritz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message