On Sep 26 1997 at 13:19, Rowan_Crowe wrote:

 SW>> I want the freebsd machine to call my ISP and serve as a
 SW>> router/firwall (what ever else) for my other two machines running
 SW>> Win95 and OS/2. At the moment I don't have a 24hr connection and
 SW>> neither of the other machines have ip address (I get a different IP
 SW>> each time I cal my isp).

 R> What exactly are you wanting to do with the other machines? Will 
 R> they need direct internet access?

 R> If you are only planning to use things like WWW, FTP, email etc then 
 R> you can set up the freebsd box as a proxy.

At the moment I want the freebsd box to be the one that calls' the isp when
required. I will be setting it up to so that it's a gateway/ip masquerading
for the os/2-win95 machines to have full access to the net... I do plan on
getting a 24/7 connect and I'l lbe setting up the freebsd machine as a
router etc...

 SW>> So what's the best way to go about all this. I'll also have to 
 SW>> figure out how to re-compile the kernal to remove all the un-needed 
[...]
 R> If that works with no errors, then finally:

 R> make install

Done all that now... The kernel's down from the 1.4mb generic kernel to my
custom one at 780K...

Re: the cdrom...

It's the freebsd install disk's. Os/2 barfed on the install of the
port's/packages section (I was usding os/2 as a FTP server for the freebsd
cdrom) , so I got a lend of a scsi cdrom drive. I've compiled the cdrom
support into the kernel. Now it's just a matter of getting it mounted. When
I boot the machine, it's finding the devices attached to the scsi card
(sd0/cd0), but when the mounting of the rom happens the system give's a
error that the line with the cdrom in the fstab file is 'fsbtab:
/etc/fstab:5: Inappropriate file type or format'

the fstab file is:

#Device         Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump    Pass#
/dev/sd0s2b     none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/sd0a       /               ufs     rw              1       1
/dev/sd0s3e     /usr            ufs     rw              1       1
/dev/cd0        /cdrom          isofs   r               1       1
proc            /proc           procfs  rw              0       0

Stephen
Email: curl{at}qonline.com.au

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