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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 18:04:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ken Seggerman <suleyman@echonyc.com>
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: laptop as router on home network
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Greetings:

I have recently reconfigured my home network. I am fairly confident
that I have the IP numbers correct. I have two FreeBSD books and
a Cisco exam study guide which agree with my numbers. I can ping,
telnet and mount from any *nix machine to another, and can access the
internet from any machine. Samba works correctly.

The problem I am having is that NFS will often hang, particularly
when I try anything ambitious like backing up the laptop to the PC
(FreeBSD on both machines)

It has even happened when editing a text file accross an NFS mount.

Am I overtaxing my laptop to be using it as a router like this?

I have to go back to the old configuration to do a laptop-to-PC bacup.

This is what I have now:

pub          pri       ep0 (pccard) ed1   |  100BaseT Hub |
	                                  |_______________|
home DSL switch--------FreeBSD 4.3 Laptop---|    |      |
firewall and NAT       133mHz 80MB RAM           |      |
     |                 SQL, netatalk             |      |
     |		       httpd, servlets	        PC      PC
     |		       router 			500mHz	133mHz
     |					        256MB	64MB
     |						RAM	RAM
     |                 				FreeBSD FreeBSD
     |						3.4	3.4
    iMac              		 		NT  	Solaris
 						Linux

	                      		        dc0       xl0

This is what I had before, it ran fine with no problems.

       pub
aDSL-----| home DSL router with firewall and NAT |
         |_______________________________________|
       pri   |         |         |         |
	     |         |         |         |
             |         |         |         |
            ep0	       |	 |	   |
	  (PCMCIA)     dc0       xl0       iMac
          laptop       PC        PC
         FreeBSD      FreeBSD   FreeBSD
         webserver    NT        Solaris
         servlets     Linux
         SQL server

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks,

Ken Seggerman
suleyman@echonyc.com




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