From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 30 15:47:38 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F22116A4CE for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:47:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (mail.bathnetworks.com [84.92.24.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BFE043D48 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:47:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@bathnetworks.com) Received: (qmail 7678 invoked by uid 510); 30 Jan 2005 15:47:36 +0000 Received: from 84.92.24.252 by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (envelope-from , uid 508) with qmail-scanner-1.24-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.80/691. spamassassin: 3.0.1. perlscan: 1.24-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(84.92.24.252):SA:0(-1.1/5.0):. Processed in 2.208447 secs); 30 Jan 2005 15:47:36 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN-Mail-From: bsd@bathnetworks.com via lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN: 1.24-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(84.92.24.252):SA:0(-1.1/5.0):. Processed in 2.208447 secs Process 7671) Received: from mail.bathnetworks.com (HELO ?84.92.24.252?) (bsd@bathnetworks.com@84.92.24.252) by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk with SMTP; 30 Jan 2005 15:47:33 +0000 From: Robert Slade To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1107100053.7135.18.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:47:33 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Free BSD Router/Gateway X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:47:38 -0000 Hiya, I'm new to Free BSD, but getting to like it. I have a project in mind, using a test setup to start but hopefully resulting in something I can use in a production environment. Currently my internal network has a couple of W2k servers which are getting long in the tooth like me, and keep falling over. In addition, the way my network in total is setup is rather wasteful of external IP addresses and has firewalls on all machines in addition to the main firewall/gateway to my internal network. This leads me to consider a router/gateway/firewall with DHCP and DNS connected to my ADSL link and routing via NAT and port forwarding etc to my internal network and DMZ and acting as a router/ firewall for the external IPs. This leads me to my first question, what modem should I use, is there a USB or PCI modem that works well with Free BSD? Thinking about the Firwall / Routing issue leads to more questions: What would the best way of doing this be, bearing in mind that it would need to be remotely administered, preferably by a web page? Is there a Howtoo or similar that would help? Thats probably enough for now. Thanks for your time. Rob