From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Feb 21 22:53:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mta4.snfc21.pbi.net (mta4.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D2B837B607 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:53:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ciagon@quiknet.com) Received: from ciagon ([209.233.16.89]) by mta4.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.09.16.21.57.p8) with SMTP id <0FQB0048OKFA63@mta4.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:52:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 23:01:17 -0800 From: Thomas Hargrove Subject: NAT To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <002c01bf7d02$9dbd51e0$0201000a@yourmom.dhs.org> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Priority: 3 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I was wondering if you guys needed a section about how to set up NAT on a FreeBSD machine to use it as a gateway for cable modems or DSL. I don't know how specific you like to get. All the parts for doing it are covered in the manual, setting up ipfw in the kernel and recompiling, but it's not in one simple step by step format that would be pretty useful (at least would have been to me when I first ventured into using BSD). It seem that a lot of people are running into these problems since more and more are getting some kind of fast internet connection (DSL or cable modem) and want to use more than one machine on the net at a time. I have set up many gateways (for both Linux and FreeBSD) and I must say I prefer FreeBSD (mostly for it's stability and ease of use). I've configured about 10 machines in the same way, and would be glad to write a step-by-step instruction on exactly what needs to be done to use a FreeBSD machine as a gateway. Let me know what you think. Thanks, Tom Hargrove To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message