From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 30 9:24:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wawa.eahd.or.ug (wawa.eahd.or.ug [216.129.132.164]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC7B37B561 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 09:24:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ksemat@wawa.eahd.or.ug) Received: from localhost (ksemat@localhost) by wawa.eahd.or.ug (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA00757; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:40:48 +0300 Posted-Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:40:48 +0300 Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:40:48 +0300 (EAT) From: To: john saleeby Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: accessing the web In-Reply-To: <20000730161121.50224.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You definitely need an upstream and probably a range of IPs to assign to your dialup or wireless clients. As well you will need a router of some sort. I know someone these ends who is doing something similar. They have a BSD machine and a router with a modem rack. he has one routable IP from his upstream and a leased line to his upstream. He then assigns dialup clients with rfc1918 private IPs and masquearades them with NAT through his BSD machine. On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, john saleeby wrote: > Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 11:11:21 CDT > From: john saleeby > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: accessing the web > > Talk about a Newbie!(That's me) I live in a small town with few ISPs the > only free ISP is not reliable( and we could loose it anytime). What I really > want to do is establish a small local ISP (200-300) users and split the > operating costs among the users. NOW- is BSD (part of)the way to do this? > What more than the server(BSD) do we need to connect to the net? Phone > line(?) or what? OR DO WE STILL NEED TO HAVE AN ISP TO CONNECT TO, OR CAN WE > GO DIRECT TO THE WEB????(IF YES< HOW) Told you we > were Newbies (but we're sincere) > > If I'm barking up the wrong tree please let me know - but if it can be done > point me in the right direction. > > Thank you, > John > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Noah ksemat@eahd.or.ug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message