From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 6 11:22:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA10098 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:22:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news.mtu.edu (news.mtu.edu [141.219.70.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA10075 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:22:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwmaurer@mtu.edu) Received: from mtu.edu (root@mtu.edu [141.219.70.1]) by news.mtu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20145 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:22:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pace1.cts.mtu.edu (pace1.cts.mtu.edu [141.219.52.51]) by mtu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00927 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:22:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from mwmaurer@localhost) by pace1.cts.mtu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7/mturelay-1.2) id OAA24629 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:25:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Maurer Message-Id: <199810061825.OAA24629@pace1.cts.mtu.edu> Subject: Re: Setting up BSD as a gateway To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:25:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I know Dan Langille said this..... > > And if he has, how do they get mapped to real IP addresses on the Internet > > without natd or a similar facility? > > I'd like to know this answer too. I was helping someone in undernet > #freebsd over the weekend. They claimed that their cable modem assigned > different ip addresses to the computers. All of the computers were > plugged into the hub. And the cable modem was connected to the hub. I > didn't understand how it could work either. Same here. I *tried* just having the cable modem, and just 1 of my machines plugged in, with no success. dhclient couldn't communicate with the dhcpd server on the other end at all... -- Mark Maurer markm@dct.com Programmer: Digital Magic Interactive mwmaurer@mtu.edu Senior, Michigan Tech University "The OOP folk think they are about to inherit the world, while I am becoming increasingly convinced they are becoming obsolete" -- Bob Cringely To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message