* Stephen Walsh writes to All, on Tuesday September 23 1997
   at 21:22:

...

 SW> So after all that I had a lookaround the system, and it's very
 SW> different to linux. Now my question is, what's the best utils and
 SW> changes I should make to the system?

 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).

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

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

Otherwise, you'll need to fiddle with IP masquerading. I have no idea how
it's done with FreeBSD...

 SW> So what's the best way to go about all this. I'll also have to figure
 SW> out how to re-compile the kernal to remove all the un-needed junk (I
 SW> keep on getting a mesasage saying that IRQ7 is doing something [there
 SW> are no devices in the machine configured for that IRQ. My net card
 SW> use's 5, the scsi card 15, and the standard serial ir'q for the serial
 SW> ports].

Make sure you have the kernel src installed (/usr/src/sys). Go to
/usr/src/sys/i386/conf and copy GENERIC to something else like CURL. Edit
that file, commenting out what you don't need. (Note! I'd just comment out
obvious things like a 2nd SCSI controller and the multitude of network
cards supported. Be conservative until you get the feel of it.)

If you need to add a device, look in LINT which has everything you could
possibly have in a kernel.

Some devices may be required unconditionally, and some functions may need
more than one keyword or device configured to work. Comment your lines,
rather than deleting them, so you can go back if something doesn't work.

Then:

config CURL
cd ../../compile/CURL
make depend
make

If that works with no errors, then finally:

make install

... and reboot.

If you get stuck, then at the boot prompt you can enter
"kernel.GENERIC" (copy of the generic kernel) or
"kernel.old" (old kernel before last recompile) to allow you to
boot and reconfigure the dud kernel.

Cheers.


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