From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 08:55:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA02138 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:55:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA02079 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:55:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov (daemon@cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.101]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA09047; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:55:10 GMT Received: from auk.fsl.noaa.gov by cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov with SMTP (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA169440509; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:55:09 GMT Message-Id: <3248045D.5173@fsl.noaa.gov> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:55:09 -0600 From: Sean Kelly Organization: NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b8Gold (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.10 9000/725) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: mitch@hardware.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Private network & routing to the internet via PPP w/one IP References: <199609240027.RAA01436@dns2.noc.best.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mitch James wrote: > My question is: Can > FreeBSD 2.1.5 route the trafic for a private IP network as it comes on the > CD-Rom without any other software? It sure can. I do this with my systems at home: one FreeBSD host has a ppp connection to the Internet and an Ethernet interface to all the other FreeBSD hosts. You just need to edit /etc/sysconfig and set the gateway option to YES: # If you want this host to be a gateway, set to YES. gateway=YES Also, make sure you've set up routing correctly. Then, reboot your system. If you'd like to see copies of my /etc/sysconfig and related files, let me know and I'll pass them along. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/