From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 10 12:32: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pdxpo.dsl-only.net (sub16-3.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.16.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5772737B413 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 12:31:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pdxmax@dsl-only.net) Received: from tabor.office.archimedesoft.com (unverified [63.105.19.225]) by pdxpo.dsl-only.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.5.4) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 12:27:28 -0700 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 12:31:58 -0700 From: Tabor Kelly X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.49) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: Tabor Kelly X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <13315901755.20010810123158@dsl-only.net> To: Tabor Kelly Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple machines sharing one ADSL modem In-reply-To: <8515314120.20010810122210@dsl-only.net> References: <8515314120.20010810122210@dsl-only.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Actually, it can be done with 1 NIC, but it is not a good idea. You will have lousy performance. On Friday, August 10, 2001, 11:40:31 AM, Pablo wrote: A way is as follows: Putting a FreeBSD box acting as a router/gateway/firewall. You need a dedicated machine to this task. Maybe an old Pentium with little RAM and HD can work. But with a particularity: this box must have two NICs, one connected to the LAN (hub), another connected to the Internet (ADSL modem). This is on the hardware side. On the software side, installing the last FreeBSD release on this box. Additionally, you need to make certains kernel configs. An article interesting about this is "Cheaper broadband with FreeBSD on DSL", by Renaud Waldura, at http://www.daemonnews.org/200101/pppoe.html Also, look at: http://www.freebsddiary.org/gateway.php I hope this help you Good luck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message