From owner-freebsd-net Mon Aug 6 7:44:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [208.247.99.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CC6A37B403 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 07:44:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from localhost.softweyr.com ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=8ba3441bf93a17857b23e1696029f7e7) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15Tlk7-0000nY-00; Mon, 06 Aug 2001 08:52:31 -0600 Message-ID: <3B6EAF2F.1BCEC72A@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 08:52:31 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Pentchev Cc: bstephens@regionsmortgage.com, net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD server as a router?? References: <86256A9C.00636E33.00@smtp.regionsmortgage.com> <20010802214841.E11105@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter Pentchev wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:57:09PM -0500, bstephens@regionsmortgage.com wrote: > > > > > > I have been combing the freebsd.org site for the last two days > > attempting to find some documentation on how to configure and use a > > FreeBSD server as a router. I have found some information on > > configuring the server as a bridge as well as a filtering bridge, but > > no router info. Does anyone have any leads on some info? There seems > > to be a number of such articles/books for doing a similar feet under > > Linux, but I can't seem to find any such documentation for FreeBSD. I > > have been wondering about using the filtering bridge scheme. It would > > provide the segmentation of traffic that I need but does it provide > > routing tables, shortest data path info, etc. as a router would? Any > > assistance is appreciated. > > I believe this message belongs in -net. No, actually it belongs in -questions, where ALL "how do I do XXX with FreeBSD?" questions belong. What bstephens needs to do is add gateway_enable=YES to his /etc/rc.conf. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message