From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 23 2:16:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71AC737B416 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 02:16:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id fANAG1R32608; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 02:16:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "ScaryG" , "Steve Brown" , "Fuji Zhang" Cc: Subject: RE: high speed internet connection and lesstif question Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 02:16:00 -0800 Message-ID: <006301c17407$d9a5cf40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <013f01c17395$cb0e06e0$7301a8c0@eagle.ca> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal 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 >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of ScaryG >Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 12:40 PM >To: Steve Brown; Fuji Zhang >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: high speed internet connection and lesstif question > > > More good info. I often wondered if I should have just broke down and >bought a Netgear RT314 and saved me some grief configuring my FreeBSD box >but hey, I had all the stuff here and it didn't cost me anything but time. I >have two NICS in my box in which the second feeds a hub and my other >machines. > > But for those not willing to goof around with NAT and IPFW in addition to >trying PPPoE the Internet Gateway gadgets are a nice idea. > I can also particularly recommend the RT314 vs something like the Linksys. With the Linksys, it's only webmanaged, the RT314 can be telnetted into in addition to the webinterface. Very easy to do from a BSD command prompt. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message