Grant Stockly wrote:
> So far I've done all this on a PC with NetBSD, but not with a mac.  I
> havn't done much with netBSD on the Mac.  Here is what I need done.  I'd
> realy like to do it on the mac!
> 
> -PPP connection that stays open.  when the connection dies, it redials.
> -Route the PPP connection over ethernet with IP forwarding on ports.  lets
> say 192.168.1.50 is the router and a connection comes in to port 80.  Then
> the router 192.168.1.50 could send it to the compute that handles http
> 192.168.1.100.
> -Serve ftp (I know it can do this) but make it so that you can only access
> the ftp from inside the network
> -http.  www server inside and out of the network
> -POP3/SMTP server inside/outside of the network

If you've done all of the above on a PC running NetBSD/i386, it's
virtually the same on a Mac running NetBSD/mac68k (the port names for
modems and the device names for ethernet will be different, but that's
about it :-)
 
> I might plan to upgrade to a cable modem, so is it possible to have 2
> ethernet cards in a computer and route an ethernet connection to ethernet?

It is possible to have 2 Ethernet cards in the same computer, but I'm not
sure exactly what you mean by "route an ethernet connection to ethernet".
On my home system, I have a Q700 with an Ethernet card and a modem.  The
Ethernet card is connected to a small hub which connects the other
machines on my tiny LAN together.  The Q700 runs PPP over the dialup
connection and uses IPNAT to route stuff from the other machines through
the dialup line.  It works pretty well :-)  I presume this is more or less
what you're looking for?

> Thats all the questions I have for now!

Let us know if you have more :-)

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
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