On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 09:24:47PM -0500, Dave wrote: > I have a setup that was a 10 megabit hub holding together a freebsd6 > firewall/router/webserver/other box. Updated that to a 10/100 megabitt > Belkin g+ router for wireless. The problem now that i'm having is both the > server and this new router do the following: > firewall > dhcp > dns > nat > and they both utilize separate subnets. I'd like for the Belkin router to > handle wireless traffic, while the original fbsd router handles wired as > well as it's original functions of firewall, nat, dns, and dhcp. > If anyone has any experience with this or recommendations i'd appreciate > it. My thought was turn off the dhcp server on the belkin router and let > the original fbsd server's dhcp server handle it, but i'm not sure if doing > so will disable it's ability to accept wireless clients. I'd also like the > wireless network to be secure.
Use the Belkin as a bridge rather than a router, by simply not using its WAN port, and do turn off its dhcp server. I do the same with a Netgear. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I never met a computer I didn't like. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
