From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 11 21:18:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA02447 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:18:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA02405 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:18:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA16588; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:18:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:18:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White 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. 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