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Date:      Sun, 02 Aug 1998 16:30:28 +1000
From:      Eddie Irvine <eirvine@tpgi.com.au>
To:        david@magickalhome.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   FreeBSD as a proxy server
Message-ID:  <35C40784.D76EF3AF@tpgi.com.au>

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David,

Are you actually running FreeBSD?

You do not need to use natd to connect your
W95 machine on a private lan to the internet,
all you need is FreeBSD and its ppp program.

The ppp program (not pppd) in FreeBSD
will connect your LAN to the internet
and do ip aliasing for you. (maybe pppd
does ip aliasing as well?)

I use this to connect 45+ Macs and one PC
to the internet. I got started by following
"the pedantic ppp primer" at 

http://www.au.freebsd.org/tutorials/ppp/ppp.html

Later on you can add squid to speed it up.

See also

http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/eirvine/freebsd/hermione.html

Getting computers to talk to each other is never easy
to begin with... 

Good Luck
Eddie.

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