general question about setting up gateway

[Roger Olofsson]

Richard Yang skrev:
> hi,
> i am trying to use freebsd as my home network gateway to the internet.
> any good reference i should know besides what's in the handbook?
> thanks
> 
> rich
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Hello Richard,

The first step is really easy - assuming you have a FreeBSD with two 
nics in it - edit /etc/rc.conf and comment out the line that starts with 
'defaultrouter=' and then add a line saying 'gateway_enable="YES".

The second step is a bit more complicated - you will have to decide on a 
firewall and a NAT mechanism. Depending on your choice here you will 
have to do various things to implement it.

The handbook is a good start when chosing firewall  - 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/firewalls.html .

There are alot of other additional information spread out on the 
(w)internet - here's a couple:

ipfilter
http://freebsd.peon.net/tutorials/21/

ipfilter and pf resources
http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf/

pf
http://web.irtnog.org/howtos-orig/freebsd-firewall

I hope this will help you get started.

Greetings
/Roger