Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 16:34:15 -0500 (CDT) From: David Vondrasek <david@davidv.iadfw.net> To: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting up BSD as a gateway Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9810051631400.2521-100000@ns1.davidv.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9810051356030.29670-100000@mercury.webnology.com>
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On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Jasper O'Malley wrote: > > > >>> Kevlyn <kevlyn@arythia.com> 10/01 8:30 PM >>> > > I've gone through all the documentation and tried several different > > possibilities and now I am going to have to ask for help. What I've got > > is a pentium 133 w/64 RAM running 2.2.7 which connects to the interent > > and everything runs just fine. Now I am trying to route a second > > computer running Win95 to the internet using BSD as the gateway, I've > > enabled the gateway in rc.conf and still the Win machine can not seem to > > reach the internet, it makes connections to the BSD machine but can not > > access the internet. Does anyone have any ideas? > > How does it connect to the Internet? A dial-up line? How did you choose an > IP address for the Win95 box? > > If you're dialing in to a standard ISP dial-up account, chances are you've > only been allocated one IP address by the ISP. You'll have to run natd on > the FreeBSD box to allow the Win95 machine to connect, so that requests > from Win95 box look like they're coming from the BSD box (which has a > legitimate IP address). Why does he have to run natd ? I'm doing it wil out running natd. I just tell the win95 box it's gateway is the bsd box's IP. Note to 1st poster: You have set up internal IP's for each machine right? -- David L. Vondrasek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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