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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!netcom.com!harp From: harp@netcom.com (Greg Harp) Subject: Does FreeBSD support two NICs? (3c509) Message-ID: <harpCtL4BJ.1FL@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 05:52:31 GMT Lines: 17 I am considering basing a network gateway on FreeBSD, since most of the good gateway tools seem to be based on BSD. In order to do this, I need to be able to install two NICs in the machine. I use 3Com 3c509's. I have read that the drivers may be buggy for the 3c509. I will certainly be paying attention to that. However, I am still interested. Sooo.... Does FreeBSD support two interfaces (on two different subnets) in one machine? It appears that the packet forwarding is turned off by default -- good. That helps. Also, has anyone use TIS' Firewall Toolkit under FreeBSD? I would be interested in others' experiences, and I would be willing to share my own once I'm up-and-running. TIA, Greg