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Date:      Sun, 24 May 1998 11:58:09 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Brad Tucker <zvi@t-networking.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <19980524115809.B353@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980523185025.7324A-100000@zvi.t-networking.com>; from Brad Tucker on Sat, May 23, 1998 at 06:55:00PM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980523185025.7324A-100000@zvi.t-networking.com>

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On Sat, 23 May 1998 at 18:55:00 -0700, Brad Tucker wrote:
> I have a freebsd box at home, and a win 95 box.  I have ethernet cards on
> both boxes.  In the freebsd box I have a modem.  I would like to use the
> freebsd box as a gateway for the win95 box.  I tried setting the
> geteway=yes in rc.conf.  this didnt seem to work.  When i try to ping
> somewhere thats not at home from the win95 box I get "Request Timed Out."
> Do I need to set the freebsd box to be a router??  Is there an easy way to
> tell the freebsd box to take any requests from the device ed0 and give
> them to the devices tun0?  Will someone please push me into the right
> direction.

It looks like you've done the right thing on the FreeBSD box.  Have
you told the Microsoft box that the FreeBSD box is the gateway?  If
so, you should try using tcpdump to see what the Microsoft box is
doing, and if the packets go out over the ppp line.

Greg
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