On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, ayeats wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I have a few basic networking questions.
> 
> Sean-Paul gave a lot of good advice. I'll just add a few notes.

I'll add a note or 2 to Bill's good advice ;)

> NetBSD/mac68k doesn't support floppies. :-( SCSi zip drives will show up
> just like hard disks, though.
I've used a zip with my mac.  I have been able to format 1 as a hard drive
and mount it and have it act just like a drive.  Very nice when I didn't
have enough disk space to build a new kernel.  You can also use tar to
access it.  However, I did find that you must use the SBC SCSI driver (not
the NCR one.  What I saw was that with the NCR driver, everything acted
fine, but if I did a checksum (cksum) on a file, copied it to the zip, and
then did another cksum, the checksums didn't match.  There's a ZIP How-To
on www.macbsd.com somewhere.

> 
> > 5. If I have a cable modem, two ethernet cards (on the unix machine) and 
> > a hub, how do I share it with the rest of the house? Proxy? Ip 
> > Masquerading? Whichever is best and what should I use? gated, routed, 
> > mrouted? How do I set these up? Remember, VERY Basic!
> 
> There's a IP-NAT how to which should be pointed to from the mac68k web
> pages. Don't use gated, routed, or mrouted. You won't need to for that
> setup, and I've had problems w/ gated deleting routes when it didn't find
> another gated to talk to.

Mediaone uses DHCP to dynamically assign IP addresses.  See the
DHCP-HowTo.  there's lots of good stuff if you go to www.netbsd.org and
follow the documentation link.  You'll find various FAQ's and How-To's.

You will want to only have a /etc/ifconfig.[interface] for 1 of your
network cards (the one that goes to your home LAN).  The other (which goes
to the cable modem) gets its IP from DHCP.

Best of Luck,

Dan