From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 12:25:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bigstudios.com (H185.C214.tor.velocet.net [216.138.214.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 698B437B41F for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:25:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from bigstudios.com([192.168.75.105]) (1696 bytes) by mail.bigstudios.com via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:25:03 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.111 2000-Feb-17 #1 built 2000-Jul-5) Message-ID: <3C910762.7588784@bigstudios.com> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:26:10 -0500 From: Sam Suh X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy.Keenan@Colorado.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsd as a client References: <7873E830CBFB544CB773C663C735F0F53084CC@busexch2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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