Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:21:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Charles A. Peters" <charlespeters@tecpro.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modem Gateway to Allow Shared Access to ISP? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980625111211.1471Z-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199806250848.EAA24887@ais.ais-gwd.com>
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On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Charles A. Peters wrote: > These machines, all Win95 boxes are setup to do tcp/ip. Each has a > local static ip address in the following form: > > Tom's machine: 192.168.0.42 > Sheila's machine: 192.168.0.48 > Floras Machine: 192.168.0.41 > etc... > > The midpoint gateway is currently set to 192.168.0.1. This machine is > assigned a dynamic ip address (on the dialup adapter) upon connection > with our ISP. The midpoint gateway then forwards all traffic in and out > as appropriate. It usually works for http (WWW), but is very > inconsistant for things shuch as email. These inconsistancies are why I > would like to switch out the midpoint in favor of something that is more > reliable (that I don't have to babysit). Perfect! I'm doing an identical setup here at the house. I have a FreeBSD machine running PPP over Ricochet (radio modem) back to the U. I run ppp with NAT and proxy arp enabled. An ethernet card using net 10.x.x.x addresses drops into the hub and out to the wall jacks. Completely seamless (except for CVSup), and since I got the Rico in the right place, I haven't had to touch it for the last 10 days. PPP is running -ddial anyway, so if the link dies it simply redials. The box also serves printing, DHCP, and DNS, and isn't even breaking a sweat. Neat for a P90 :-) We have FreeBSD, Windows, Mac, Rhapsody, and NeXT boxes as clients. Too bad we're three hackers sharing a 33.6k equivalent link. > I will go with this method if I am given simple instructions (a point to > the appropriate docs) on how to accomplish this task. I think there are some docs in http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ppp, but I can walk you through it if there's no help there. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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