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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!wraith.internode.com.au!tipellium.apanix.apana.org.au!usenet From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD: SLIP and router Date: 4 Feb 1995 18:23:36 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3h0gn8$d3g@tipellium.apana.org.au> References: <3gi2vp$52n@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au brendt@dip1.ee.uct.ac.za (Brendt Wohlberg) writes: >Is it possible to use a FreeBSD machine (connected to the >Internet by SLIP) as a router for the local network? If so, are there >any particular complications involved, or is it a matter of setting up >the SLIP connection and compiling the router options into the kernel? That's all that's required. options GATEWAY in the kernel, default route in the routing tables, and a slip connection. I use a FreeBSD-2.0 box as a router for my local lan, it's also my main disk/news/mail/mud server. I don't even notice the serial port interrupts. ;] Cheers Leigh -- | "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart | | from 50 to 8, the other dwarves | <hart@eppie.apana.org.au> | | began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." | C/- 195 Gilles Street | | -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" | Adelaide SA 5006 |