Anything I can do on a hardware router I can do in FreeBSD, it's just
that the nice web interface formulates the routing rules for me.
Unfortunately (or fortunately) I'm no expert at throwing packets around.
Back "in the day" (8-10 years ago) there were many single-floppy linux
distros that would turn your old 486 into a NAT router. This was when
the Linksys style routers would cost you $300.

I think the best solution is to setup BIND on the FreeBSD server (which
is separate from the comcast router, BTW)
Enter it as the DNS server for the DHCP server and I should be all set,
with fingers crossed.

Thanks folks,

Martin

William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
> addition to improving security by implementing your "DMZ" lan.
> And routers are awfully cheap these days.  I haven't tried to
> do something like this with the available low-end router software
> that's out there these days.
>
> (Hmm.  Interesting question: does DDWRT run on a standard x86
> box for purposes of prototyping router configurations?  Bring
> it up and debug it on a spare PC, measure pps an cpu requirements,
> and then (maybe) replace with tiny router box for esthetic reasons?)
>
> BillW
>   
> It seems to be like a second router should make this "easy" in

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