Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 06:26:30 +0200 (SAST) From: The Psychotic Viper <psyv@root.org.za> To: Gideon <h20soul@mweb.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FBSD box between cisco and clients Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107230614310.40819-100000@lucifer.fuzion.za.org> In-Reply-To: <007101c11320$2159d0a0$020101c8@Liquidsoul.my.domain>
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Hi, On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Gideon wrote: > At this moment our network looks like this : > > Clients - Cisco Router - Internet > > I want to do the following > > Clients - FBSD - Cisco - Internet any more info on connectivity, i.e. any routers,hubs between the fbsd box and the client machines? > Every machine above including the clients have public ip's . The reason i > need to do this is i need to do bandwidth limiting with the freebsd box thus > the clients must not be able to access the cisco directly . also all the > machines above must be on one subnet . Well what I do is setup the FreeBSD box as a firewall to pass out data from ur internal (translates as client in ur case) network (via NAT). They can keep their IPs just need their gateway changed. So in essence a transparent NAT gateway/firewall. > I was wondering whot will be the best way of doing this ? Also sum > documentation references would be much appreciated . Also whot software > should i use for bandwidth capping ? IPFW or ALTQ or ne other ? as for the rate limiting DUMMYNET works good in my experiences. PsyV To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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