I have TCP/IP Illustrated volumes 1,2 and 3 - they seem to be very good.
Basically, I have two machines and the network. One machine, bill say, will
run netscape. The other machine, henry say, will be using dummynet
(http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/) on FreeBSD 2.2.8. This
program allows simulation of a hop, in my case a satellite hop. Henry is
then connected to the internet via the network. I need to setup Henry so
that all packets routed from Bill are passed from one interface to the other
(ed1 to ed0 or vice versa).
I will have a read through the documentation you have linked to, but if you
know of anything to try, let me know
Thanks
Allan
Kevin McDermott writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Hello all.
>> I am at work trying to set up one of our FreeBSD machines as a router. The
>> reason for which - we are studying delays and losses of networksa and ways
>> to improve the TCP/IP stack. We have tried and tried to get the machine
>> setup as a bridge but with no luck. We have noe decided to try a router
>> option but my head now hurst with staring at screens of man pages.
>> Does anybody know how to set up a machine as a router? Linux machines will
>> be useful, but obviously if someone knows FreeBSD, even better
>
> What is it you're trying to route?
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bridging.html
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/routing.html
>
> That should get you started
>
> But if you need more information, ask me.
>
> Oh, and a book on TCP/IP networking wouldn't go astray either ;)
>
> Kevin
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