Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:38:16 -0400 From: "Stephen A. Derdau" <sderdau@bit-net.com> To: charlespeters@tecpro.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modem Gateway to Allow Shared Access to ISP? Message-ID: <35913988.D2531211@bit-net.com> References: <199806240325.XAA16616@ais.ais-gwd.com>
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I think you may want to try setting up your FreeBSD as a gateway in your /etc/rc.conf file You'll also want to use ppp -auto -alias check out http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html or the http://www.freebsd.org/ documentation section Hope this helps. Charles A. Peters wrote: > > I would like to allow users on a novell 3.12 network to access the internet via a > freebsd gateway, with a 56k modem through our local ISP. > > I am currently doing this semi-successfully with a product called Midpoint > Gateway for Windows 95/NT. The problem is that my users are having one hell > of a time sending and receiving email (WWW access is just great). There is not > much web browsing, but there is a considerable amount of emailing. The > Midpoint gateway does not easily allow users to send and receive email (the > setup is confusing and does not work consistantly). > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks in advance. > > Charles Peters > > charlespeters@tecpro.com > > charlespeters@tecpro.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD It's That And More http://www.FreeBSD.org /SD http://sderdau.bit-net.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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