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Date:      Sun, 09 Jul 2000 19:47:07 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        John Johnson <ioann_j@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Accessing FreeBSD Gateway from Another FreeBSD Machine
Message-ID:  <3969392B.6B33B4FD@3-cities.com>
References:  <20000710023521.23690.qmail@web4101.mail.yahoo.com>

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John Johnson wrote:
> 
> Kent,
> 
> Thanks for the quick response. I cleaned out a lot of
> deadwood from rc.conf on both machines, verified
> defaultrouter (set to external gateway IP address on
> the gateway machine and internal gateway IP address on
> the client), and added a second nameserver to
> resolv.conf for both machines. No dice. Any other
> suggestions?

I do have all 5 of my machines in the hosts files on all systems. This
includes each version of Windows that I multi-boot and FreeBSD.

Kent

> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> --- Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > John Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > I've built a FreeBSD machine which I am using as a
> > > gateway and firewall. I have no problem pinging
> > the
> > > gateway machine and accessing the Web from a
> > Windows
> > > 2000 laptop which I have sitting behind the
> > firewall,
> > > but I am unable to do either from a second FreeBSD
> > > box, which also sits behind the firewall and on
> > which
> > > I would like to run Samba and Apache. I am,
> > however,
> > > able to connect to the Web when I plug directly
> > into
> > > my DSL router, which is how I installed FreeBSD,
> > so I
> > > know the NIC is working.
> > >
> > > I know that I'm probably missing something
> > glaringly
> > > obvious, but I can't seem to figure out what. I've
> > > also tried with Linux with the same results. Be
> > happy
> > > to post netstat and/or route output if someone can
> > > steer me in the right direction.
> >
> > Sounds like you didn't add a
> > "defaultrouter="IP_FBSD_Machine"" into
> > your /etc/rc.conf. Depending on how you have things
> > setup there may be
> > other settings. I have a static IP and specify my
> > ISP's DNS servers in
> > resolv.conf.
> >
> > Kent
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for the help,
> > > John Johnson
> > >
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