From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 22 15:34:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA26552 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:34:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au (smmcdialin.ultra.net.au [203.56.101.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA26516 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:33:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from station1.ultra.net.au (yellow.colour.ultra.net.au [203.20.237.152]) by smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA22262 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 07:18:21 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199709222118.HAA22262@smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Keith Spencer" Organization: St Margaret Marys College To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 08:33:07 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Routing a LAN Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk HI all, I am getting there...Brian told me how to ppp -alias to allow my LAN to route out. They do have static c class IPs though. is ppp -alias still whats needed in this situation? For a small 20 box LAN do I need named running or will a hosts file do? With ppp -alias can a remote internet machine Ping in to a box on my LAN? I suspect not. Should I run squid as well? I know its a proxy server and so should save bandwidth no? Thanks for your patience and help...you have gotten me a LONG way down the bsd track...2 weeks ago I had 2 CDs a box and a very large question mark ; ^ ) Thanks Keith Spencer Teacher...St Margaret Marys College Townsville Australia