From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 11 14:04:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22309 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:04:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22172 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:03:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id WAA12401; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 22:04:19 GMT Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:04:19 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: "SPAM..." cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: natd and cable modems In-Reply-To: <199803112129.QAA31478@BULLDOZER.MIT.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, SPAM... wrote: > I'm currently trying to set up a local area LAN which uses a single > computer connected to a cable modem to do IP masquerading. I've read > the natd man page and think that I have everything set up correctly. > Yet, nothing on the local network is getting or receiving packets. My > local network consists of the freeBSD machine, and 3 WinNT machines > connected through the LAN. Make sure that you have gateway="YES" in /etc/rc.conf Other than that, I've noticed on my home lan that inside machines need to ping or otherwise talk to the gateway machine before they can talk to the outside. I also set firewall_type to open to get things going, I need to go back and tighten that up. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message