From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 15 22:52:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83A1F3DEF for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 22:52:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from jgl.reno.nv.us (rno-max6-55.gbis.net [207.228.61.183]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA27098; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 22:53:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by jgl.reno.nv.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA02839; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 22:53:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <030601bf784a$7ae05b20$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Ryan Thompson" , "Gene Bomgardner" Cc: Subject: Re: DSL - FreeBSD - Gateway ? Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 22:52:57 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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... > >Yes, two network cards is the way to go with a router setup. If you plan >to add more machines to your lan, plug your router into a hub, with >something like: > >Cable Modem ---- Router ---- Hub > / | \ > Box1 Box2 Box3 Shouldn't that be: Hub ----- Router ----- DSL Splitter ----- ISP / | \ Box1 Box2 Box3 --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message