Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:18:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "SPAM..." <jlueck@mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: natd and cable modems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980311211734.16485T-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199803112129.QAA31478@BULLDOZER.MIT.EDU>
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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. I assume you've set up the ipfw/nat combination as described in the Handbook. You can't Just Run natd; it needs to know what to translate. > Here's one specific question...should the freeBSD machine be able to > 'ping' the other machines on the local network? Right now, I'm not able > to. Each local machine has a 10.x.x.x IP address, and their names are > matched to their IPs in /etc/hosts. Any idea what could be wrong? You can't directly contact any machine behind the firewall; they don't have real IPs. You should be able to ping out though. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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