[SunHELP] Single NIC NAT box possible?

[Henry Marquez]

In reality AirPort base station has two interfaces, one is the "wired"
Ethernet port and the second one the "wireless" 802.11 port.

Henry


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From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Tim Chong
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 6:38 PM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunHELP] Single NIC NAT box possible?


Hi there folks,

Just helped a pal setup his home network yesterday...

Cable modem<Dynamic IP via DHCP>----H U B----AirPort Base Station
                                    | |  |
       The rest of the machines (NAT & DHCP via the AirPort Base Station)

AirPort base station is Apple's wireless LAN base station with 1 10/100 port
and 1 V.90 port (here we're using the NIC)

Wondering if there's a way for me to subsitute the AirPort base station with
a single NIC SPARC LX to provide NAT & DHCP for internal machines as the
AirPort base station (minus the wireless LAN access of course).

I know I should able to do something with 2 NIC and ipfilter but is it also
possible using a single NIC?

I'm opened for suggestion on OS on the LX-have access to Solaris (2.6, 7, 8)
NetBSD (never install before) and RH6.2 SPARC media.

Thanks in advance,

Tim
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Tim Chong <oeyvind at mac.com>
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