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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!agate!soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU!richardc From: Veggy Vinny <richardc@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router? Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 21:30:43 -0800 Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 50 Message-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.95.961101212409.20230S-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.csua.berkeley.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <327AC440.3A5B@OntheNet.com.au> On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Tony Griffiths wrote: :> Veggy Vinny wrote: :> > :> > Greetings everyone, :> > :> > I remembered that FreeBSD can be used as a router... I was :> > wondering what I need to do exactly if my machine had a connection :> > to the :> > rest of the internet as 198.94.103.34 and then I wanted my machine to :> > be :> > the gateway for the network 205.167.164.0 and assign my machine :> > 205.167.164.34 which will be the internal network, what would I need :> > to do :> > exactly and how do I advertise the routes for 205.167.164.0 to go :> > through :> > 198.94.103.34? Thanks. :> > :> Well for starters you need to enable IP forwarding. This can be turned :> on explicitely by 'sysctl' or default to on by using- What's the line for sysctl? :> options GATEWAY :> :> in you kernel config file! This won't work in FreeBSD -current since the GATEWAY option is no longer available it seems. :> As for advertising routes to the global Internet, that is really the :> responsibility of the ISP to which you connect. Internally, you need to :> have all of the hosts in network 205.167.164.0 pointing their default :> route to the gateway machine (203.167.164.34) and this machine having a :> default route pointing to the ISP's router. You could run RIP (routed) :> but you probably don't need to introduce unneeded complexity! Hmmm, assuming I only had one machine now and the incoming connection was 198.94.66.101 or something like that and I want to set my machine as the gateway for the 205.167.164.0 network as node 34, can I do my own advertising of the route to the net? If so, what do I need to do exactly and how do I make it so my machine goes through the net as 205.167.164.34 instead of 198.94.66.101? I thought routed wouldn't do RIP though or how does it work exactly? Vince GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking Operations - GUS Mailing Lists Admin