From owner-freebsd-ipfw Thu May 31 6:29:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from imf11bis.bellsouth.net (mail311.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.58.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81FD037B423 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 06:29:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brownicm@prokyon.com) Received: from prokyon.com ([208.61.148.210]) by imf11bis.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.01.01 201-252-104) with ESMTP id <20010531133013.WTTQ19887.imf11bis.bellsouth.net@prokyon.com>; Thu, 31 May 2001 09:30:13 -0400 Message-ID: <3B1644A0.41DF397D@prokyon.com> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 09:18:24 -0400 From: Chris Browning X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Culver Cc: freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i'm new at this..... References: <20010530223551.8399.qmail@web10003.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG /stand/sysinstall is not going to be much help. You need to edit /etc/rc.conf and set defaultrouter=[upstream_router] to set your gateway on the firewall. The machines on your LAN will use the inside interface of the firewall as their gateway. I need a little more information. Is this machine already connected to the Internet? If so, defaultrouter is already set; if not, I would work on that side (outside interface) first. Alex Culver wrote: > > i've got 2 interfaces in my machine(one for the inside and > one for the outside)....from the regular /stand/sysinstall > program, do i need to put a gateway address in the config > of either of my enet interfaces before i begin to > configure ipfw(recompile kernel and all that)? > -- ----------------------------- Chris Browning brownicm@prokyon.com ----------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message