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Hello Everyone,

I'm assisting someone in setting up a FreeBSD 4.8 server and have a few
questions. Basically, this person has a LAN that is connected to the
internet via a cable modem and has a linksys router. The FreeBSD machine is
just another machine on the network.

They have setup a few daemons on the FBSD box and now want to give the
internet access to it. The main problem we're running into is that, while
the local network has access to the box via the private IP, the internet
doesn't and the box doesn't have internet access. Obviously, I can solve the
problem of the internet reaching the box by using port forwarding and
forwarding traffic to the FBSD box. But what about giving the FBSD box net
access? How do I tell it to use the same gateway as the other clients on my
network?

I've gone through the handbook and either I am missing something or I am not
understanding properly. Can anyone help?

Thanks!
Anthony

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Quote:> But what about giving the FBSD box net access? How do I tell it to use
> the same gateway as the other clients on my network?

Make sure that in /etc/rc.conf you have a line saying

        defaultrouter="12.34.56.78"

(With the actual IP address of the gateway filled in, of course.)

Greg Shenaut

Quote:> Hello Everyone,

> I'm assisting someone in setting up a FreeBSD 4.8 server and have a few
> questions. Basically, this person has a LAN that is connected to the
> internet via a cable modem and has a linksys router. The FreeBSD machine is
> just another machine on the network.

> They have setup a few daemons on the FBSD box and now want to give the
> internet access to it. The main problem we're running into is that, while
> the local network has access to the box via the private IP, the internet
> doesn't and the box doesn't have internet access. Obviously, I can solve the
> problem of the internet reaching the box by using port forwarding and
> forwarding traffic to the FBSD box. But what about giving the FBSD box net
> access? How do I tell it to use the same gateway as the other clients on my
> network?

> I've gone through the handbook and either I am missing something or I am not
> understanding properly. Can anyone help?

If the router also acts as a DHCP server, then all you have to do is run
dhclient on the FreeBSD box and it will automatically set up the route for
you. If not, then run

route add default gateway ip.address.of.router

as root and it will send all packets not destined for the local network to
the router. You can also set the defaultrouter variable in /etc/rc.conf to
ensure that the default route gets set at boot time.

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