On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, you wrote: While this is true relying on the packet filtering on the 675 for your firewalling can be a dicey prospect. Especially for those of you who do not put an Exec or En password on your 675's. While VISI is techinically correct a little ipchains loving here and there will help you sleep a little better at night... Another rule of thumb.... "Never rely on what USWest supposedly gives away for free... (They used to give the 675's away, don't know if they do that anymore > You could skip the BSD box altogether, I am assuming its there for NAT, > and just use the NAT on the 675. It is working fine for me. US West is > in the habit of telling people they need multiple IPs but the technician I > talked to at VISI was nice enough to tell me the entries to make it work > on the 675(all the information you need is in the 675's manual); after > having used FreeBSD for a couple of months for NAT. It works great. I > have only had to restart it once in the last 6 months. > > I still haven't been able to get the 675's DHCP server working > correctly but that would just be gratuitus sugary topping. > > ____________________________ > Mike Neuharth > ADCS Technology Specialist > http://www.umn.edu/adcs > > E-Mail : mjn at tc.umn.edu > Page Mail : 6123065932 at messaging.sprintpcs.com > http://nifty.dsl.visi.com/ > ____________________________ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org -- ----------------------------- |\/|ike at GetBent.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org