From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 15 22:43:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from akira.lanfear.com (akira.lanfear.com [208.12.10.34]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9935D3FC2 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 22:43:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from katana (katana.lanfear.com [10.0.0.3]) by akira.lanfear.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA43706; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 22:42:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcw@lanfear.com) From: "Marc Wandschneider" To: "'Gene Bomgardner'" , Subject: RE: DSL - FreeBSD - Gateway ? Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 22:43:51 -0800 Message-ID: <000401bf7849$2fef7070$0300000a@katana> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <200002160507.AAA20741@smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Gene > Bomgardner > Subject: DSL - FreeBSD - Gateway ? > > > > I'm running FreeBSD Ver 3.2. I have an External DSL modem > connected to my hub. One machine runs FreeBSD, one runs > windows. I haven't gotten FreeeBSD to use the DSL modem yet, > but windows does. What I'm trying to accomplish is to allow the > FreeBSD box to act as a gateway thus permitting access to DSL > simultaneously with the Windows 95 box. Has anyone done this? > Should the BSD box have 2 network cards with the DSL modem on > one of them? I assume a firewall on the BSD box would be a good > idea... Basically, what you want to do can be done -- I'm doing the same thing here. I've got a Cisco SpeedRunner DSL modem/router device, and have one of my FreeBSD machines acting as a firewall/gateway proxy server. things i needed for this: 1. help setting up the SpeedRunner in routing mode as opposed to bridging mode 2. at least 2 static IP addresses to support a gateway and internet machine (I have way more, actually) If you've got your DSL thing plugged into a hub, it sounds like you might already have these two things done. I've documented exactly how *I* did it at http://freebsd.lanfear.com/howtos/firewall.html Net result is that i've got a pretty wicked set up now -- I decided to hide my other computers behind the firewall instead of using my static IPs because I've already had problems with network attacks [spam relays and warez servers]. The good news is that FreeBSD is nothing short of a BREEEZE to set up. I'm continually amazed. marc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message