From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 14 13:56:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3CE816A420 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:56:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from post-23.mail.nl.demon.net (post-23.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5635C43D45 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:56:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([83.160.138.119]:9884 helo=assata.aseed.net) by post-23.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1F90fN-000D2s-6O; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:56:29 +0000 Received: from http.aseed.antenna.nl (unknown [192.168.0.50]) by assata.aseed.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD88B2A08A0; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:03:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost.localdomain (a78172.upc-a.chello.nl [62.163.78.172]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0104A58C7E2; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:02:49 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:56:12 +0100 From: albi To: Kumar Message-Id: <20060214145612.c789a97a.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <5d214e6f0602140548p34d3d330xba6d0a471df36ef5@mail.gmail.com> References: <5d214e6f0602140548p34d3d330xba6d0a471df36ef5@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.1.1 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting Up A Home Network ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:56:30 -0000 On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:48:33 +0800 Kumar wrote: > Is it possible to set up internet connection, between a XP Pro box, > and a FreeBSD-current box, without the use of a router, I have got > two ethernet cards on the box running XP Pro, and one ethernet card > on the box running FreeBSD-current, and a cross over cable. > > Is it theoretically possible ? if you put 2 nics in the FreeBSD-box with the cross-cable it's possible yes, follow the firewall-instructions : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls.html if you want to keep the 2 nics in the ms-windows-machine, i would suggest to ask in a ms-windows-forum/list etc. -- grtjs, albi gpg-key: lynx -dump http://scii.nl/~albi/gpg.asc | gpg --import