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Date:      Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:53:40 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Harri Varpanen <hvarpane@abo.fi>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   firewall prob
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980829124225.295A-100000@sadis.netti.fi>

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I'm trying to get my FreeBSD box (one modem, one network card) to route a 
win95 machine. I consulted a friend who has done it with a static ip (mine
is dynamic) and pppd (I use ppp). Everything seemed to work, but only the
two machines seemed to communicate via the ethernet; no communication to
the "outer world" occurred, although the modem called and ifconfig showed
that I had got an ip. For example, ping <my ip from the isp> did nothing
(or maybe it said that there's no route to host, don't remember), only
ping <my fake ip in the hosts file> did succeed.

I traced this to the firewall: whenever I have firewall functionality
configured in the kernel, I can't get my modem connection to work
(although I obtain an ip and there clearly is a connection). Any ideas?

Harri


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