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[Ben Haysom]

ASCII Sketch:

ADSL---DSL-300T----rl0 in Unix Box
                                                   sis0 in Box---Rest
of internal network.
.
rl0 and sis0 are network cards.

What is top posting?
I can't afford to 'buy a router'. The modem wiped me out.

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:40:08 +0000 (GMT), Jan Grant
<jan.grant at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Ben Haysom wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > Thing is, it should be so straightforward, but I've stumped loads of
> > people with it.
> >
> > I have a small home network, atm an XP PC, a XP laptop, and the
> > FreeBSD 5.1 machine.
> > I am connected to the internet with an unknown modem from my ISP.
> >
> > I've bought a D-Link 300 and attched it to the FreeBSD Box.
> > I want to use that to connect to my ADSL, and have the rest of the
> > network share the connction.
> > Part of the network is wireless, the rest standard Cat5 with a 4 port
> > Netgear hub.
> >
> > I can't get it to work.
> >
> > Obviously that ain't enough details, what else do I need to post?
> 
> ASCII sketch of a network diagram (or a better description); what your
> goal for the role of the freebsd machine is (eg, everything talking to
> that as gateway, that doing connection sharing).
> 
> [offlist because it's just a "here's what information you might want to
> supply; please go back to the list with the answers though]
> 
> --
> jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/
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>