From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Oct 13 18:19:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 528E737B401 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:19:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from samson.sentinelchicken.net (h-64-105-205-76.CMBRMAOR.covad.net [64.105.205.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3318843EB2 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:19:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwm@sentinelchicken.net) Received: (qmail 3845 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Oct 2002 01:19:18 -0000 Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 21:19:18 -0400 From: Jason Morgan To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: router question Message-ID: <20021014011918.GB2426@sentinelchicken.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 06:13:35PM -0600, Matt Wardell wrote: > i have cable modem that only provides 1 > dynamic ip addres. > i want to use a freeBSD mechine running 4.6 > as a router and firewall so i can get all my win2k pc's > on the net. > where can i find info about this? > thanks > matt If you have a cable modem, you will probably have to run PPPoE, but you should first check with your ISP if that's what is required (from my experience, if you ask them specifically about PPPoE, you'll get a dull response - ask, instead, if a username and password are required - you'll probably already know that anyway). Start here for PPPoE: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html As for the routing, it's actually a lot easier than it sounds initially. Look here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking.html and here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/routing.html and here, maybe: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/natd.html Cheers, Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message