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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!xmission!seth.leigh!user From: seth@pengar.com (Seth Leigh) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Please help a freeBSD newbie Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:52:47 -0700 Organization: None, unfortunately. Lines: 47 Message-ID: <seth-2402972352470001@seth.leigh> References: <3304827D.549F@crl.com> <330886eb.2749133@Server> <87g1ywm4b8.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> <Pine.GSO.3.93.970220173027.14199A-100000@lilith.albany.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: slc64.modem.xmission.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36069 I don't know what I'm talking about. That being said ;-), I have seen several people in this group recommend not running routed. I don't know why they said this, because I don't know exactly what routed does. Still, I went into my sysconfig file and changed router=routed to router=NO, and rebooted. This post is made from my Mac after this reboot, and proves that it works. Now, maybe when my copy of "DNS and Bind" arrives I'll learn more about why. For your info, I am running a Mac IIsi (six years old, that's 83 in dog years...) and a Cyrix P166+ FreeBSD box, with the FreeBSD box set up as the router, using an internal 33.6 modem. In the hosts file on the unix box, I have the mac and the unix box listed. The mac has the unix box listed as the gateway in MacTCP, and also lists the unix box as the default name server. Apparently, the unix box gets all the info it needs from the files in /etc, and requires no routed to be running. I can do anything on the net from either the Mac or the unix box, by name or by IP address. I am running user-mode ppp for dialin ppp connection. Anyways, don't ask me why or why not you should run routed, because I don't know, but I am looking and reading to find out. I just know that I didn't need to be running routed, and now I am not, and everything works fine. In article <Pine.GSO.3.93.970220173027.14199A-100000@lilith.albany.edu>, Jaime Kikpole <jk7023@cnsunix.albany.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, stephen farrell wrote: > > basically, you'll probably want to set up your freebsd box to > > "support" the network. you'll want to run routed (routing daemon), > > and DNS if you don't want to use names and not ip numbers (since macs > > don't have an /etc/hosts). setting up the routing daemon is quite > > easy, you simply set up some ip numbers (use the ones from the previous > > post), run routed, and then tell the macs to use the freebsd box as a > > "router" or "gateway" or whatever it is in the IP control panel. > > I don't mean to be a pain, but the MacOS actually does have its > own equivalent to the /etc/hosts files. Its called "Hosts" and its > located in the System Folder. The file that will be used will be in the > currently active System Folder. Its a plain SimpleText file and can be > edited quite easily. > > Of course, the MacOS isn't made to handle the sort of load that > FreeBSD is. So I'd still recommend using it as your router, if all other > things are equal. -- Seth Leigh FreeBSD 2.2-BETA-A user (future unix guru ;-), Macintosh programmer, firearms enthusiast, R/C Airplane modeler, Soldier in the Utah National Guard.