From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 23:53:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA04387 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 23:53:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line6.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.138]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA04381 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 23:53:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00476; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 23:53:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 23:53:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Brandon Gillespie cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP Masquerading.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Brandon Gillespie wrote: > I know Linux can do it (I have a friend who has it setup, masquerading > a Win95 machine through his Linux box to the network via ppp). > > Can and if so how would this be achieved in FreeBSD? Basically my wife > often wishes to get online while I am also connected (usually working). > As this causes a dilemma I have ordered a new system for her (Mac, her > choice) with basic thinwire ethernet. However, now I get to set it up. I > would really REALLY not like to switch to Linux, is there any hope? This is the classic "ppp-gateway" question. You have to set up your machine for proxy ARP and enable IP forwarding. Proxy ARP is a part of iijppp I believe, and IP forwarding is contolled by the 'gateway' /etc/sysconfig item. Someone wrote something on doing this, I can't remember where it is tho. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major