Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:08:24 -0400 From: "ROTHENBERG, MICHAEL" <MROTHENBERG@exchange1.PRIA.com> To: 'Mike Meyer' <mwm@mired.org> Cc: 'FreeBSD-questions' <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ethernet config Message-ID: <CB5D74F381BDD311944F0000F802076603A1CB79@EXCHANGE1>
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Cool product. Hummm... so it does DHCP and gets an address assigned. Assume it doesn't get a 192.168 address of its own for the external interface. Then does NAT on anything from the inside. Sounds like my BSD box }:) I don't think that it has anything to do with this device. You have run other things though it and gotten good results. So that means its local to the BSD box and how it is handling things. On a picky note with a guess, your box's interface is set to netmask 0xffffff00 while the hub/router is netmask 0xffff0000 if it is 192.168 based. This might mean that your box is missing some broadcasts?? Or not. I'm not sure how that really works. with the different masks. Have to go home and grab some books. I'm not sure what's happening Mike. IPFW getting in the way? -Michael -----Original Message----- From: Mike Meyer [mailto:mwm@mired.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 3:30 PM To: ROTHENBERG, MICHAEL Subject: RE: Network trickles ...... ROTHENBERG, MICHAEL writes: > Not familiar with the linksys products. You would have to look at the > product spec to find out for sure. If you have a hub/router that seems to be > a strange combo. If it combines routing into the mix then you have to assign > the router an actual IP address. Did you do that with your box? If not then > its probably just a buffered hub or switch device. Most of the inexpensive > 'hubs' are plain vanilla hubs and work fine for small office/home nets. I > use a 3com office connect 4 port at home. If I had done more research I > could have saved $100+ by buying something cheaper that does exactly the > same thing. Live and learn... The Lynksys is a strange combo - but it's not the only such product, and I expect you'll start seeing more of them. It's a 4-port 100Mb hub, along with a 10Mb connection designed to talk to a cable or dsl modem. It's a DHCP client on the 10Mb side, and plays DHCP host and does NAT to the 100Mb side. It also does firewall work, with limited filtering and port forwarding. People port scanning it show that it's pretty much transparent. The setup is plug-n-play if all you've got is DHCP clients. The downside is that you can't turn off NAT, and it only handles the 192.168 internal subnet. I'm not sure if it will even do NAT for things other than 192.168.1. Street price is about $160. The specs say "Four 10/100 RJ45 Switched connectors". Thanx, <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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