From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 12 11:43:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA10911 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:43:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from neale.econ.vt.edu (neale.econ.vt.edu [128.173.173.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA10906 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:42:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdmurphy@neale.econ.vt.edu) Received: (from rdmurphy@localhost) by neale.econ.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09142; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 14:43:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rdmurphy) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 14:43:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199810121843.OAA09142@neale.econ.vt.edu> From: "Russell D. Murphy" To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 2 ethernet cards Reply-to: rdmurphy@vt.edu CC: rdmurphy@vt.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have an extra ethernet card I would like to place in my office machine and use to (sometimes) connect my laptop: laptop desktop ------ ------- e-net card ---> e-net card 2 e-net card 1 ---> office net/world 1. Is this feasible? 2. My laptop and desktop machines have IP addresses. Do I need a new (legitimate) one for the second card, or can I use one of the "private" addresses since no one should need to address card2 from anywhere outside of my office? 3. How do I tell card2 to send what it gets out on card1? 4. How do I tell card1 to accept stuff addressed to the laptop and forward it along to card2? 5. Are there any handy scripts for switching between configurations of laptops? I've been working through the O'Reilly TCP/IP Network Administration book, but I'm not sure what to do. Suggestions or pointers to other references would be gratefully accepted. Thanks- Russ Murphy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message