Re: allowing access to a single directory
Bill Moran wrote: Walter wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2003-02-16 09:30, Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to allow an anonymous FTP user to see a directory in another slice, so I put a symbolic link to it. But then anyone could access my entire file system by appending combinations of ../ to a path name; e.g. ls share/../. Is there a way to stop this by only allowing access to the linked directory and nothing more? Symlinks in anonymous FTP don't work, since anonymous ftp sessions are chrooted in the home directory of the `ftp' user. You should probably move the files in ~ftp/stuff and then symlink to ~ftp/stuff from other parts of your tree. The /var slice does not have enough space to hold these files. So it sounds like I need to find another solution (like move in another HD). Thanks. You could always move the FTP directory to a slice that has room. Yes, I actually thought of that, but then I'd leave my (in this case) /usr slice vulnerable to being filled-up with ... junk. Unless I put in quotas, I suppose. Hmmm. I'll think on that; but I also have an HD which I'm not really using. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: monochrome monitor
Doug Reynolds wrote: On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 20:05:46 -0500, Walter wrote: I have no manual for this (used) Acer Pentium 120. The Acer web site does not appear to have schematics or other MB information (that I could find). And looking at the MB I see nothing that leads me (a non-tech) to think there's a VGA/MGA selector. Anything particular writing or abbreviations I might look for? (Good thought.) sometimes they say vid video vga/mono color/mono but since it is a brand name that has been mass produced (ie designed to log into AOL and play solitare), it probably doesn't have one, or it is labeled something obscure like JP34 or something like that. :( Nothing like that I saw on the Acer.. BUT! I also have an (old) HP 486, and on its MB there's a VGADIS set of pins. So moving the jumper over allowed the monochrome monitor to work (disabled the VGA)! THANKS!! Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Memory disk
Steve Bertrand wrote: The reason for this is so I can make my boxes much smaller and much faster (no hdd i/o). 1. Is it possible to do a custom r/o install of Free onto a CD? 2. Is it possible to run FreeBSd out of memory with no hdd? This is a novice wondering out loud: To keep things small, is it possible to use the new memory cards (for digital cameras) instead of a hard drive? The capacity on those is getting pretty large. Then you could drop even the CD. (I hoping to see them completely replace floppies, even as a boot device, some day.) Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: XF86Config.
Hello Peter, Your modeline is far to fast, Try the one which has a 48Mhz bandwidth. (Look in the lint). Most smaller and older monitors just need low refresh. Find the modeline for 1024x768 and 60Hz refresh. Greetings, Walter Spierings At 02:59 PM 2/11/03 +0100, you wrote: Thanks John, But unfortunately adjusting the vsync and hsync didn't make any difference. I did have a working XF86Config under Linux (XFree86 4.2.0 )but I haven't got a copy of that anymore , so it should be possible ! Just don't know what the magic parameter is to add to or change in the X11 Config file. rgds, Peter John Murphy wrote: Peter van Eck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still having toruble to get my X window system to run properly. It loads the X server succesfull but the display is isshowing 3 Vertical stripes thru the Desktop. The frequencies seem OK , but it is like the desktop is split up in 3. USing an HP Ultra VGA 15 inch Monitior + a S3 Trio32/64 videocard . XFree86 4.2.0 Anyone a suggestion for me to check/change ? Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 HorizSync30.0 - 86.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 130.0 EndSection I think your monitor would not be able to cope with those ranges. The HP Ultra VGA 17 seems to be limited to 30-64 Khz / 50-90 Hz. The 15 inch is probably the same. The effect you're seeing is probably the result of the Horiz. frequency being way too high. If reducing those ranges doesn't help, you could try it without the 3dfx accelerator card. John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
monochrome monitor
I have a monochrome monitor I'd like to plug in to a pentium-based FBSD router. This worked fine on the old 386 computer it came from, but now that the 386 is dead, I'd still like to use it over a color monitor. Pulling the VGA card and replacing it with the mono card and monitor does not work. Any thoughts? (I didn't find anything useful in the handbook or archives, but maybe I missed something.) TIA. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: monochrome monitor
Daxbert wrote: I have a monochrome monitor I'd like to plug in to a pentium-based FBSD router. Does your system's bios support older video? Video selection is normally found on the first bios setup page. Thanks. I put back the VGA monitor card and checked. On the BIOS set-up page it shows the display type as VGA/CGA but stippled out, as it also stipples out the amount of memory. There are other video related memory settings to be played with, but I'm guessing monochrome is not an option. True?? Thanks. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: monochrome monitor
Dax Eckenberg wrote: Daxbert wrote: I have a monochrome monitor I'd like to plug in to a pentium-based FBSD router. Does your system's bios support older video? Video selection is normally found on the first bios setup page. Thanks. I put back the VGA monitor card and checked. On the BIOS set-up page it shows the display type as VGA/CGA but stippled out, as it also stipples out the amount of memory. There are other video related memory settings to be played with, but I'm guessing monochrome is not an option. True?? Well, I just remember from the old days being able to choose between VGA, CGA, MGA??. Where MGA usually referred to a Hercules or other monochome adapter. The stippling (sp?) may be due to the BIOS auto-detecting the video type. It may very well detect Mono/MGA/something when the monochome card is installed. So, does your host boot, just without video suport? Or does it sit there and beep at you as if there was no video card installed? It booted and ran fine with only the mono card in there, just no video. With both cards now, the VGA works and still no mono. (Before today I only had the VGA in.) I'm guessing either the BIOS does not handle mono, or maybe just this mono card. Thanks for your help so far and whatever other things you might suggest to look at, but it seems like a dead end at the moment. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: monochrome monitor
Dax Eckenberg wrote: Dax Eckenberg wrote: Daxbert wrote: I have a monochrome monitor I'd like to plug in to a pentium-based FBSD router. Does your system's bios support older video? Video selection is normally found on the first bios setup page. Thanks. I put back the VGA monitor card and checked. On the BIOS set-up page it shows the display type as VGA/CGA but stippled out, as it also stipples out the amount of memory. There are other video related memory settings to be played with, but I'm guessing monochrome is not an option. True?? Well, I just remember from the old days being able to choose between VGA, CGA, MGA??. Where MGA usually referred to a Hercules or other monochome adapter. The stippling (sp?) may be due to the BIOS auto-detecting the video type. It may very well detect Mono/MGA/something when the monochome card is installed. So, does your host boot, just without video suport? Or does it sit there and beep at you as if there was no video card installed? It booted and ran fine with only the mono card in there, just no video. With both cards now, the VGA works and still no mono. (Before today I only had the VGA in.) I'm guessing either the BIOS does not handle mono, or maybe just this mono card. Thanks for your help so far and whatever other things you might suggest to look at, but it seems like a dead end at the moment. Walter I would suggest that you change your boot loader to use the serial console as default. You'll still miss all of the BIOS POST information which is being delivered to the non-working mono video, but at least you'll get everything after the initial boot blocks are read. That's presuming you have another host / dumb terminal to connect to the serial port. I don't know how to configure a serial console, but that doesn't matter since I don't have one of those. Thanks anyway. I'll keep an eye out for one at the local used PC store, and for now just live with the present monitor. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: monochrome monitor
I have no manual for this (used) Acer Pentium 120. The Acer web site does not appear to have schematics or other MB information (that I could find). And looking at the MB I see nothing that leads me (a non-tech) to think there's a VGA/MGA selector. Anything particular writing or abbreviations I might look for? (Good thought.) James Long wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 01:10:09PM -0500, Walter wrote: I'm guessing either the BIOS does not handle mono, or maybe just this mono card. Long, long, ago, motherboards had a jumper on them, with one position for monochrome, and another position for everything else. Either I missed it, or you didn't say what motherboard you are using, but you might take a close look both at the docs and the board itself to see if there is such a jumper on yours. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
handling non-printable characters in file names
Hi all, Leaving out the details, I need to know how to navigate directories and remove files that use non- printable characters in their names. du and ls show me they're there, but I can't figure out how to make cd work, or rm either. Fwiw, the non-printable char is \225. Lynx was not able to see the directory either, but maybe because it began with a . - I don't know. Also, is there a way to configure FBSD from accepting non-printable characters in file names? Thanks in advance. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: handling non-printable characters in file names
Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:28:57PM -0500, Walter wrote: Leaving out the details, I need to know how to navigate directories and remove files that use non- printable characters in their names. du and ls show me they're there, but I can't figure out how to make cd work, or rm either. Fwiw, the non-printable char is \225. Lynx was not able to see the directory either, but maybe because it began with a . - I don't know. Generally, there are several things to try with difficult file names: 1) Try quoting the spuriously named files (try double and single) 2) Add a ./ in front of the filename 3) Try letting the shell expand the filename for you by typing the first few characters and then pressing the Tab key. 4) Trying escaping any unruly characters with a ``\ Thanks, Nathan. I had tried 1 and 4 but they didn't work (at least the way I did them). I don't have a shell that expands file names, but I'll try 2 if it happens again. (I've zapped it all by starting at the parent directory.) There's probably someone who can explain why non- printable characters are useful in file names, but I'd really rather disallow them altogether - if there's a build option or control flag to set. Anyone? Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: virtual tape or streamer device for backup purposes possible
#define LANG de_DE On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 01:54:33PM +0100, Christian Tanghe wrote: Hello, is it possible to configure a virtual tape, just working on an other harddisk? Lokaly or on any other Server in the network Writing an reading on it should be transparent for commands like tar, cpio or any backup software. Ja - nennt sich Datei und gibt es in nahezu beliebiger Menge auf jedem Filesystem. Kann zwar nicht Spulen, aber das brauchst du in dem Fall ja auch nicht, da es sowas wie Dateinamen gibt. tar, cpio und Co kommen damit wunderbar zurecht. Einen Streamer komplett simulieren ist so eine Sache, da Streamer nicht gleich Streamer - es gibt da mehrere Befehlssätze und Eigenarten. Aber braucht man eigendlich auch gar nicht. Or in other words: Can you only load a driver for an non existent streamer and use it to write on disk? Or do I need a special software solution? Evtl einen Systemupdate vor dem Bildschirm :) If you will excuse me ;), anybody knows if it exists a comparable solution under Linux? Ja - Dateien funktionieren sogar auf dem C64. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usergroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: virtual tape or streamer device for backup purposes possible
Sorry - for the german reply, but Christian has BBC'ed his message to the german Cosmo-Project mailing list. I did noticed it to late... -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usergroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: USB Mass Storage device
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:36:45AM +0800, Seo Boon, NG wrote: This is the dmesg when the notebook during my reboot. The message doesn't appear when the USB device connects to notebook when it's running, hence I'm assumming that the kernel couldn't see the device. Is there any means to get the kernel see the USB device when I connect the device online i.e the notebook is running? I think rebooting my notebook everytime when I connect the USB isn't a viable option :) Is usbd running? Do you have /dev/usb* entries for all usb channels? -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usergroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: USB Mass Storage device
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 07:31:00AM +0800, Seo Boon, NG wrote: | Do you have /dev/usb* entries for all usb channels? I don't seems to have all the usb* entry. Sorry I'm unfamiliar with usb setup, any idea how do I get it fixed? Thanks. cd /dev sh MAKEDEV usb1 usb2 -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usergroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
can't load kernel on 386 system
I've installed a minimal+docs generic system on 500-somethingMB HD, and I'm trying to run it on a 386, 8Mb RAM computer. It fails at elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed can't load module '/kernel': input/output error Because of the small HD, and the fact that the /var and the /tmp partitions never use over a few hundred blocks on my Pentium computer, I made them 32Mb each for the 386, but accepted the defaults for the / and the Swap partitions; the /usr partition got the remainder of the HD. Am I seeing a configuration error, a MB error, other? Any thoughts? Thanks. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Epson Stylus Color installation problem
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 06:37:38PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did not see any recommendation in the Handbook to set up communication mode with usb printers. When I run lptcontrol ... the answer is ioctl : Operation not supported by the device. Is it normal ? Is there anything to change in the kernel to set the mode to polled or interrupt ? You are connecting to usb! lptcontrol is for - well for the lpt device - lpt != ulpt. Does dmesg show succesfull probing of ulpt0? Do you have usbd_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf? Are you using /dev/ulpt0 and -not- /dev/lpt0? Can you print with echo test /dev/ulpt0? -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usergroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD filesystem 1TB Limit
This is no doubt heresy coming from a newbie especially, but I was reading that NetBSD can support at least up to 4TB: http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/features.html#large-filesystems Walter Lowell Gilbert wrote: Joseph Gleason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IIRC There was a 1TB limit on the size of any filesystem (or actually of any block device) in FreeBSD based the kernel internaly using a 512 byte block size and having a max of 2^31 blocks. (512*2^31 = 2^40 = 1TB) Do I remember correctly? Close, but not quite. The kernel doesn't deal with blocks internally, and the block size used by the filesystem is 16k by default. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
HTTP access
Hi, Another newbie question, this time dealing with HTTP access from the world. I'm running apache on my FreeBSD computer, which is also my gateway. I can telnet FTP to it from my Mac on the local network and from an outside connection (the world). I can access it by http locally both through a local IP address and through the ISP-assigned IP (via DHCP). But I can't access it by http from the world. My neighbor's AOL account tells me it finds the server (my computer) but then times out. Any thoughts as to what's wrong? I'm using the OPEN firewall that comes with the GENERIC build. Thanks. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: HTTP access
Ty, At your suggestion that it was the ISP blocking port 80, I found the configuration line to enable Apache to listen on another port and added one, which now allows my neighbor's computer to access mine through http. Thanks for the pointer. I wonder if they'll eventually block this other port number also. I guess time will tell. Walter Ty Hoeffer wrote: It will probably require a call to their tech support. One thing you could try is trafshow. It will display incoming outgoing traffic, its port, the protocol being used, and the chars/sec invilved in the conversation. That or capture the traffic with Ethereal. Both of these apps are in the ports. Ty On Monday 04 November 2002 01:34 pm, you wrote: They may be. Do you know how can I tell for certain? It's cable-modem access, btw. Ty Hoeffer wrote: Is your ISP blockong PORT 80 Ty On Monday 04 November 2002 12:25 pm, Walter wrote: Hi, Another newbie question, this time dealing with HTTP access from the world. I'm running apache on my FreeBSD computer, which is also my gateway. I can telnet FTP to it from my Mac on the local network and from an outside connection (the world). I can access it by http locally both through a local IP address and through the ISP-assigned IP (via DHCP). But I can't access it by http from the world. My neighbor's AOL account tells me it finds the server (my computer) but then times out. Any thoughts as to what's wrong? I'm using the OPEN firewall that comes with the GENERIC build. Thanks. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
incorrect super block
Hi, I added a 3 GB HD to my FreeBSD computer (as a second drive). I used /stand/sysinstall to 'fdisk' and 'label' it. But when I try to mount it with 'mount /dev/ad3s1e /data' it complains of an incorrect super block. Any solutions? Thanks. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: incorrect super block
OK, Thanks. Fixed. It looks like I forgot to W (Write) the partiion edit when doing the label. Thanks and sorry for the bother. Matthew Seaman wrote: newfs /dev/ad3s1e When I do this it says the 'e' partition is unavailable What's the output from: disklabel -r ad3s1 There should be a line for the 'e' partition, and the fstype should be 4.2BSD tunefs -n enable /dev/ad3s1e mount -t ufs /dev/ad3s1e /data Cheers, Matthew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
4.6.2 spurious reboot, fwiw
As a newbie reading the e-mails in the forum, I'd like to mention that the log (from 'last') shows my FBSD 4.6.2 system rebooted a little after 2 last night. I had 'telnet'ed' in and had been playing some games but had logged off by 10:30 and didn't log in again until 7ish this morning. Fwiw, I'm very new to *nix and have been leaving the FBSD box on all the time, connected to the internet via cable-modem, with an open firewall, with telnet and ftp emabled. :-] So security is very low... I had also recently recompiled a I586_CPU build, among other changes. (Maybe this has bearing on the 4.7 is rebooting on its own posts, maybe not, but I'd thought I'd mention this, as the best hidden bugs are the ones that have been there for a while but only really manifest themselves later on.) Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: 4.6.2 spurious reboot, fwiw
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 08:56:58AM -0500, Walter wrote: .. my FBSD 4.6.2 system rebooted a little after 2 last night. Do you have a UPS? Sounds to me like you had a momentary dip in the mains voltage. PC's can be very sensitive to that sort of thing, and will reboot themselves when other equipment (clocks, radios, videos) just carry on reguardless. Yes, I do. So, I checked it by pulling its pull out of the wall (while the HD was not active, no log-ons, etc.). The computer stopped. It looks like my UPS battery is dead. A similar entry in the log appeared after reboot as appeared for 2 am. Good call. Of course, simply by running FreeBSD you've foxed 99% of the script kiddies and nasty-ware out in the wild. But that's no cause for complacency: any one fancy a dose of the Scalper worm? Cheers, Matthew Better securing my computer is in the plans, but after I reinstall FBSD after claiming the 600MB of the HD I left for DOS and dual-boot. After getting FBSD running, I can't think of a reason to hold onto DOS any more. Thanks. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
kernel optimization
I haven't yet found notes on optimizing the kernel by telling the compiler I have a Pentium rather than just a 386-compatible processor. I presume these lines in the kernel configuration file deal with this: machine i386 cpu I386_CPU cpu I486_CPU cpu I586_CPU cpu I686_CPU Q: Do I comment out the I386_CPU and I486_CPU lines to optimize for a Pentium, ( if not, how do I,) and Q: Does it make a significant difference? TIA. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
BBS
I see just a few BBS packages in the Ports area, is there one that considered best; or are there better solutions to offering simple user interfaces? Such as Apache+Perl scripts? Others? Thanks. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mac can't connect to Internet
I pulled the 'nameserver' addresses from /etc/resolv.conf. That seems to fix it. Thanks! W. Tony M. wrote: It sounds like you don't have the DNS entries correct on the Mac. Make sure to set up your Name Server Entries in your tcp/ip control panel. Tony But, after several minutes I clicked to check my e-mail and got an error saying it could find the mail server. I went back to the newsgroup to now get a similar can't find the server error. I could still ping the world. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mac can't connect to Internet
Hi, I was wondering what the resolution was to this, as I (a *nix newbie) am trying to accomplish a very similar thing: OS 10.1 via hub to a Pentium running FBSD 4.6.2 to a cable-modem internet connection. I can't get past the FBSD box from the Mac though the FBSD box can see the internet just fine. (The firewall is disabled. And I can ping, telnet, FTP from the Mac to FBSD just fine.) Thanks. Walter Alex wrote: Friday, October 18, 2002, 6:31:35 PM, you wrote: snip I added a Powerbook, OS X, to the local network, configured /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf. PB can ping the other boxes ok, but can't see the Internet. The other boxes can ping the PB ok. Looks like a firewall problem. If I connect the PB to the cable modem directly, the PB connects ok. snip Is the mac able to use the internet without the firewall? (Remove the firewall lines from rc.conf with '#' and try loading the GENERIC kernel at the kernel prompt). If so reboot and change the *deny/block/ect* line of the firewall and add the 'log' keyword(man ipfw to find out how to use this) to each of them. Check /var/log/security if you can see the mac being blocked by your firewall. (It will tell you what rule blocked your mac). I hope this is helpful, if not send me the output of 'ipfw s' and 'tail -n 100 /var/log/security' and i'll take a look. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Michael Heyes To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mac can't connect to Internet
I had actually tried it with the firewall enabled previously, but because that had not worked either, had disabled hoping it would work after (mis-?)reading a post here. But it seems now that I failed to recompile the kernel with IPFIREWALL and IPDIVERT, so I'll check back once that's done and tested. (Fwiw, the configuration I'm trying to implement is: Cable-Modem = FBSD = hub = Mac, PC, etc.) Walter David Kelly wrote: On Tuesday 22 October 2002 01:24 pm, Kevin Stevens wrote: Two things: - Is the FreeBSD box set to act as a router (packet forwarding on)? If another machine behind the BSD box can connect to the Internet it would answer that question. - Is the FreeBSD box set as the default router in the OS X box' settings? To which I'll add that it was not obvious in the original posting whether or not the FreeBSD system had two NICs or whether everything was connected to the hub/switch including cable modem. Walter said the firewall was disabled. So I'm guessing he is a long way from getting the Mac connected. Would be surprised if he has more than one IP address from his ISP (earthlink?), which would be required without NAT. And the firewall is needed to apply the divert rule to get NAT. In setting up my firewall I found this URL very handy: http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ Specifically is this one which I believe was the most help: http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ipfw.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
