Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:26:10 -0500 From: Sam Suh <sam@bigstudios.com> To: Andy.Keenan@Colorado.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsd as a client Message-ID: <3C910762.7588784@bigstudios.com> References: <7873E830CBFB544CB773C663C735F0F53084CC@busexch2>
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Hi, Andy. I think you are going wrong way around. At home, I have freeBSD box serving as NAT device to share ADSL connection with my 2 Windows boxes. You can use PPP or PPPoE to connect to internet, set your freeBSD box as firewall and NAT device, way you go. Andy Keenan wrote: > > Hi, > I'm trying to setup a FreeBSD4.5 machine to get client access to the > internet from my windows box. I've got ADSL setup with windows Internet > connection sharing... but I can't get outside access from the BSD machine > from my windows box. Is this even possible first off? And secondly I'm > fairly sure I won't be able to see the machine from the outside world, > simply because it's ADSL.... I have found docs on the website about setting > it up from the other way around, but for simplicity just to get access to > the net from the machine at this point would be enough. Thanks for any help > you can provide. > > -Andy Keenan > Andy.Keenan@Colorado.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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