On Sep 15, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Wolfgang Riegler wrote: > I want to create a subnet in our internal company network. I have installed > FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE i386, no updates, right from the FreeBSD CD. Now I want > to configure this box as the gateway of the subnet. I have two NICs > configured. One external for the company network and one for the new subnet. > On this box I can reach any other computer in our internal network, I have > internet access, too, and I can reach the box on the subnet. The box on the > subnet is able to ping both NICs on my FreeBSD box, but cannot reach any > other computer of my company network or the internet. Because I don't need > any firewall on this subnet, I thought gateway_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf > should be sufficient. But it doesn't work. Do I need something else?
Yes. What you've done thus far should work fine if your internal subnet was using routable IPs; since you are using 192.168.x.y RFC-1918 unroutable IPs, you want to also setup NAT on your gateway box: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-natd.html Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
