Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:42:16 -0500 (CDT) From: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) To: e9203125@antares.linf.unb.br (Alex Antao) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CISCO Message-ID: <199604171542.KAA23735@astro.acs.uswest.com> In-Reply-To: <9604171443.AA01371@antares.linf.unb.br> from "Alex Antao" at Apr 17, 96 10:43:37 am
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In a previous message, Alex Antao said: > > Hi, > > We'll get a CISCO 2509 (i think) soon, and I'd like some explanations > about connecting it ti FreeBSD. Ok, a 2509 has 2 Sync Serial ports, 1 Ethernet and 8 Async ports. > > 1) It's connected to FreeBSD box via serial port or network card ? This is a little confusing, are they going to be in the same office? Let's assume that you are a remote office, you're going to put a leased-line or Frame Relay into one of the Sync ports. There's your network connection. Next you'd put the ethernet port on your network, so your local lan is now connected the network. Next comes your FreeBSD box. Does it have a ethernet card? If so, add the ip address of the ethernet port of the Cisco as the defaultroute ie route add default `cisco address` 1. And your done. Now, if you don't have a ethernet in the FBSD, connect modems to the Cisco and the FBSD. Or a null modem cable. Setup the cisco to do ppp on the asyncs (that's kind of beyond the scope of this mail, but isn't that hard). And setup ppp (I used ijjppp) as shown in the Handbook. The Cisco serial ports do do 115200. Your FBSD will do 115200 if you have 16550A or better UARTS. > 2) Hopping it's serial port, so I'd like to know how do I configure > FreeBSD to view it like it's router (sysconfig, rc.serial, etc.) :) Sysconfig will have router info. Set defaultrouter and routedflags. rc.serial sets up the serial ports. You only need to change these to fit the configuration of the ports (speed, hardware handshaking, etc.). /etc/ppp.conf will be setup from the Handbook. Paul. -- Paul T. Root - USWEST !NTERPRISE Networking Service proot@acs.uswest.com A skydiver is taken by the gravity of his situation.
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