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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!quagga.ru.ac.za!ucthpx!brendt From: brendt@dip1.ee.uct.ac.za (Brendt Wohlberg) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD: SLIP and router Date: 7 Feb 1995 07:13:55 GMT Organization: University of Cape Town Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3h76jj$b9n@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> References: <3h0gn8$d3g@tipellium.apana.org.au> <D3L7Cz.Iu@tigger.jvnc.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dip1.ee.uct.ac.za X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] John Lucas (jlucas@uvi.edu) wrote: : In article <3h0gn8$d3g@tipellium.apana.org.au>, : hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart) writes: : >brendt@dip1.ee.uct.ac.za (Brendt Wohlberg) writes: : > : >>Is it possible to use a FreeBSD machine (connected to the : >>Internet by SLIP) as a router for the local network? If so, are there : >>any particular complications involved, or is it a matter of setting up : >>the SLIP connection and compiling the router options into the kernel? : > : >That's all that's required. options GATEWAY in the kernel, default route : >in the routing tables, and a slip connection. : > : One caveat here: Is your network registered with the NIC? If you : have only one IP address for your FreeBSD host, then where do the : other hosts on your net get their IP addresses? This is the sort of detail I'm concerned about. Are there any options other than registering the local network (and if not, how does one go about doing so)? [...] ______________________________________ |Brendt Wohlberg | |Department of Electrical Engineering | |University of Cape Town | |e-mail: brendt@dip1.ee.uct.ac.za | |______________________________________|