Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:27:13 -0600 From: Denny <denny@kewanee.net> To: Jeffrey Dunitz <orpheus@lemieux.hockey.net>, R Dias <rdias@usa.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: network? Message-ID: <19981028202713.A4913@kewanee.net> In-Reply-To: <19981027221627.E27407@lemieux.hockey.net>; from Jeffrey Dunitz on Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 10:16:27PM -0600 References: <000701be0161$1a33a400$15ca25cb@rdk98> <19981027221627.E27407@lemieux.hockey.net>
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Quoting Jeffrey Dunitz (orpheus@lemieux.hockey.net): > the actual mechanics of it are pretty straightforward: your win9x box > running WinGate has an ethernet card and a modem in it, and your other > machines have ethernet cards. Set up the ethernet on a 192.x.x.x network, > tell wingate what the addresses are, and it (supposedly) just goes. > I think wingate supports dial-on-demand, so that you don't have to > do anything to connect--just sit down at your linux or freebsd machine > and start netscape, or try to telnet somewhere or whatever. Wingate will > figure out that it needs to dial your ISP, and once the connection is > up, you can see the world. > Well, not quite. You have to direct the workstations to use the Wingate box as a proxy, it doesn't work as a gateway (The 3.0 beta has a client that gets around the proxy setup, but it only works on 95, not even NT as of yet.) So you can set your browser to use the proxy auto- magically, but FTP , Telnet, etc become a problem: you have to go to the proxy and then out onto the net. I've used Wingate for about a year and am switching our network over to a FreeBSD gateway. Unless you have to use the Windows box as your Internet connection, don't -- FreeBSD is head & shoulders above it in this respect. -- Regards, Denny Reiter denny@kewanee.net ------------------ FreeBSD: www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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