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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TWO 3Com 3c579 with FreeBSD - will that work ? Date: 25 Nov 1995 10:02:19 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <496pjb$37b@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <480k8l$ng8@overload.lbl.gov> <1995Nov20.112536.8897@hasler.ascom.ch> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) writes: > I am planning to do a test with 2.1 (whatever SNAP is available tomorrow) > with a system which has, up to now, just one 3C579 (yes the EISA version) > and the Adaptec 2742 SCSI controller in slot 9. I do know now from you that the 3c579 works with the "ep" driver... > Can I configure a FreeBSD kernel in that way, that absolutely > no data is routed between both Ethernet-Networks ? > This is a hard requirement for security reasons. That's the default. You have to explicitly enable the IP forwarding facility (the "gateway" variable). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)