From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 12:43:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-11.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F134D37B416 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:43:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-11.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16lc44-000PH1-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:43:09 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 408B14880D for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:43:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id A344D22597; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:43:08 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:43:08 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd as a client Message-ID: <20020314204308.GE10938@raggedclown.net> References: <7873E830CBFB544CB773C663C735F0F53084CC@busexch2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7873E830CBFB544CB773C663C735F0F53084CC@busexch2> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:13:58PM -0700, 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. > I think you will save yourself a real lot of grief if you do this the other way around, make FreeBSD your internet gateway and have Windows use it... -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message