I had the pleasure of having a gig nic given to me this week, which also appears on the hardware list of FreeBSD.
What I would LIKE to do is:
1). Set my 10/100 nick as the dedicated outside/internet connection with a lan ip of 192.168.1.100
2). Set the gig nick as the dedicated inside/lan connection with a lan ip of, eh, 192.168.1.(different number).
This is my home file server, and the gig nic I think would be better served for the lan then outside connections. Other then weekly remote backupus from a buisness machine, there is no trafic coming in to this box from the outside world.
This is what I think I should do:
BSD Guides :: Doing Stuff With FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, & Mac OS X
In other words, set an alias entry into my rc.conf for one of the nics.
But, here is where my questions are.
1). Which nick should be the primary? (internal lan or external internet). My guess is the primary address should be the internet nick.
2). Will both ip's/connections appear in my router? So that I can shut down all internet trafic to the one nic?
**** I'll be doing firewall rules here also.
I know, stupid questions...
Any and all help is greatly appriceated.
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