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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Router only talks to one mac address. Date: 31 Jan 1997 22:40:37 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 33 Message-ID: <5ctsd5$3ps@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5catjn$3ot@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34893 jagnew@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (H. Jared Agnew) wrote: > I need a bit of help here, I'm trying to connect our local lan to > the our school ethernet. There is one 10baseT port in the wall, and > I have been told that the router in the basement will only talk on > these ports to one mac address at a time. I have an 8 port 10baseT > hub and two ethernet cards in my FreeBSD machine. I have tried just > putting the hub off of the wall, but the only machine that can talk > to the world when they are all attached is the first that tries. > I'm clue less on what I should look in to next. Now I'm not looking > for a step by step instruction, but if someone could post the man > pages that I should read to get me so that all the machines are on > the net, it would be greatly appreciated. Sorry to say, but you probably need another router. You've got an artificially crippled one -- it has been crippled to justify the higher price for an uncrippled one. :-(( Ain't this sad? They have actually spent _more_ work into the crippled version (crippling it has costed them hours of work), but sell this one cheaper. I'm afraid they call this fairy-tale ``marketing''. Alternatively, you could make the FreeBSD box this just only box the router's going to talk to, and have it masquerade for everything else (using a second ethernet). But that's quite some more of work, and i'm not even sure anybody did already do this with FreeBSD. (Masquerading has been done, but usually only along a PPP link.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)