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[liquid at istop.com]

Hi all,

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I'm waiting for my new internet connection to be setup here, and in the 
meantime I'm starting to configure my network accordingly.

I'm going to have a static IP - say xx.xx.yy.zz - and a subnet as follows: 
xx.xx.xx.zz/28

My plan is to run a FreeBSD router to have the subnet routed through the 
static IP.  I've already got the static routes I need to add figured out.  I 
still have some questions at this point (this setup is new to me):

1.  Do I need to inform the ISP of my intentions so that people can actually 
connect to an IP which is part of my subnet, but behind this router I intend 
to build? (I didn't think it was necessary until I read 19.2.5 in the 
handbook - it doesn't seem like it's necessary based on that alone, but it 
has placed some doubt in my mind).

2.  I currently run my FreeBSD router on a cable connection while waiting 
for the new ISP to get setup.  I use NAT to translate the EXT. IP to the 
internal ones of my lan.  I don't need to run nat for the setup I plan to 
have do I?

3.  Finally, I've read (briefly thus far) about routed on FreeBSD.  Would 
this daemon be used in such a way that I don't even need to add static 
routes for LAN?

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