Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:22:40 -0800 From: Doug <Studded@san.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: natd + hub + cable modem + nfs help please :-/ Message-ID: <36890FE0.FF72AB91@san.rr.com>
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I recently took the plunge and bought myself a new computer. My plan is to make the old computer a firewall/natd/mail server and connect through it using the new computer running freebsd sometimes and win 98 sometimes. To that end I purchased a hub, cables, and a NIC for the new computer. The old computer already has a NIC that was connected directly to my cable modem. What I want to do is plug all 3 of these items into the hub and have them play nicely together. :) To that end I've wiped the old computer clean, installed 2.2.8-R on it, followed all the instructions to set up natd, and plugged it and the cable modem into the hub. So far so good. Those two are very happy together. I just used the rule that is in rc.firewall for the divert rule, and natd is started from rc.network as 'natd -n ep0', which is the correct interface. The problem comes when I try to use the new computer. So far I've only installed win98 on it, and I configured it to have an IP address of 10.0.0.1, use the old computer's IP as the gateway, and the cable modem people's dns server. When I try to do any internet related stuff from the new computer the old computer spits out something like the following error: arplookup failed for 10.0.0.1: host not on local network Now I KNOW I'm missing something, but I don't know what. This is my first foray into LAN-type stuff, so if what I want to do is possible, please explain what I'm missing in detail. If I need to go get another NIC for the gateway box that's ok, but since I will have a total of two computers plus one cable modem I thought a hub would be a better solution. :-/ I am *guessing* that I need to add an alias to the gateway box for the new box to talk to, then change the divert rule in rc.firewall but I haven't hit on a combination of these things that make it work yet. Also, I haven't even gotten around to trying to configure nfs because installing freebsd on the new box is my next project. (I needed a browser to search the archives so win98 was first.) Any suggestions to this end would also be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for any help, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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