From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 7 5:58:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from comp04.prc.uic.edu (comp04.prc.uic.edu [128.248.230.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65E9E37B403 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 05:58:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lucas@comp04.prc.uic.edu) Received: (qmail 51172 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Aug 2001 12:59:03 -0000 Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 07:59:03 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman To: Brian Doyle Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC router Message-ID: <20010807075903.B49903@comp04.prc.uic.edu> Reply-To: lucas@slb.to References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from BDoyle@cavangroup.com on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:28:55AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am making a PC router and need some advice. I am unfamiliar with > FreeBSD, so I will purchase a book soon. Good idea. > How should I begin the process? Read the beginner parts of the FreeBSD Handbook; it's on freebsd.org. > Do you think I would need to be very familiar with FreeBSD in order > to be able to complete the job? No. Provided your network cards, etc. are fairly straightforward (i.e., they get detected by the FreeBSD install program), getting a router (possibly with NAT) going is a matter of editing one file and rebooting. All of what I just said is documented in detail in the Handbook. Specific problems can be posted here; easy, beginner issues usually get correct answers within a couple of hours. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message