From owner-freebsd-questions  Mon Sep 20 23:33:38 1999
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from bantha.org (adsl-117.ntrnet.net [208.241.154.117])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42EAE14CB2
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 23:33:27 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from krinsky@bantha.org)
Received: by bantha.org (Postfix, from userid 100)
	id 75B1F66B8B; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 02:32:40 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 02:32:40 -0400
From: David Krinsky <krinsky+freebsd@bantha.org>
To: William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Two systems and a crossover cable....
Message-ID: <19990921023240.A68476@bantha.org>
References: <XFMail.990920212716.wwoods@cybcon.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990920212716.wwoods@cybcon.com>; from William Woods on Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 09:27:16PM -0700
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 09:27:16PM -0700, William Woods (wwoods@cybcon.com) wrote:
> OK, I don't want hand holding, but some directions on where to look would be
> nice....
> 
> I have a DEC Alpha that I want to network with my X86 system via crossover
> cable from NIC to NIC. I have the cable. Where would I find instructions on
> doing this.

Nothing to it.  Plug it in, give each an IP address on a private
subnet (I usually use 192.168.*), and go.

> Part two, is that I want to access the internet from the DEC through the X86
> system. The X86 system is already set up to dial on demand, although, I think I
> will need some thing like IP masquerading......
> 
> Like I said, I really don't want hand holding (I don't think you all want to
> hand hold either), I would just like some general directions on where I should
> look in the docs.....

I recommend http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~rowland/FreeBSD/natd.html.

Note that if you have just two computers, as is the case here, you
ought to be able to use the single crossover cable in place of 
the hub + two regular cables this page describes.

Dave.


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message