Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 11:50:04 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Rob Hunter <robh@uunet.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: connectivity through wingate Message-ID: <374AF0DC.4CFE61FC@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990525145722.29698A-100000@hole.noc.iafrica.com>
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Rob Hunter wrote: > > Hi > > I've got the following problem: > > I've got an NT box on a network, running Wingate, with an ISDN modem > connected to it. > > My problem is getting connectivity to my bsd box (3.1-RELEASE). The > Windows pc's on the network basically use the internal address of the > Wingate machine to get any outside connectivity, but I need outside > connectivity for the bsd box for things like ftp, ssh, etc. > > How do I setup the bsd box to use the Wingate as a gateway? Hi Rob, I use an NT server running a NATD style process as my dialout and you just point your FreeBSD system to it as the gateway and for DNS. There are a few things that don't work but I push a button and NT comes up on the shared monitor and I do what I wanted from there. WinGate handles the address translation a little bit differently. There are usually some write up's on how to make other Windows systems pass through a WinGate machine and they apply FreeBSD. You may have to go passive on a few things such as FTP. A few things that I don't use such as ICQ/IPC (?) may not work from FreeBSD. You also might find it easier to create a hosts file for your systems. They all have the same structure. From what I have been reading, in a few months you won't be able to tell whether you are using NT for a gateway or FreeBSD. The internal machines will all think they are hardwired to the Internet. I think the first installation on a clean NT system will be much faster than setting up FreeBSD to use ppp because of the wizards. That again is different when you are using an ISDN. I don't have anything like that and can't comment on that side. If you get into trouble, I don't think that is true because you can capture all of the dialog on FreeBSD and I don't think you can on NT. I've never had a dialup not work on NT and don't have any ideas on capabilities. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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