From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 6 21: 3:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29EF2154C1 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 21:03:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from jgl.reno.nv.us (rno-max5-48.gbis.net [207.228.61.112]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA14803; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 21:03:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by jgl.reno.nv.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA14024; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 21:03:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <101501bef8e5$eb6952a0$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: , "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: dhcp/natd/ppp confusion Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 21:03:16 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a regular modem, so I don't know for sure, but I think what you're looking for is the DHCP client. See 'man dhclient'. --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Weiss To: FreeBSD Questions Date: Monday, September 06, 1999 7:30 PM Subject: dhcp/natd/ppp confusion >Since I have a cable modem from the Road Runner >service, I have to run DHCP (from what I understand). > >But what interface do I use for the outside world? >tun0? I heard this is for PPP, but I read (somewhere) >that you shouldn't run PPP with NATD? > >This machine already has 2 NIC cards appearing >in dmesg as pn0 and pn1 (both are Netgear FA310TX). > >Thanks in advance! > >Kevin Weiss >kweiss@austin.rr.com > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message