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Date:      Wed, 8 Jan 1997 20:32:59 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jon Drukman <jsd@gamespot.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: using FreeBSD as a router
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970108203203.8085W-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970108093330.jsd@gamespot.com>

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On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Jon Drukman wrote:

> i need to wire two offices together via PPP.  i've got two FreeBSD boxes. 
> both are set up with options GATEWAY and are running routed -s -g.  traffic
> from the outside world in gets routed properly.  traffic from inside won't
> come out though.  if i'm on the freebsd box which is dialed out, i can
> telnet anywhere in the free world.  no sweat.  but if i hook a win95 laptop
> up to the LAN with that freebsd box, that freebsd box won't forward packets
> out.  so it seems like one machine is actually forwarding packets and the
> other one isn't, even though i've configured them identically.  is there
> any way to find out why the broken one isn't forwarding?

In these cases, you usually have to run some sort of NAT on the gateway
box, such as the one in IPFilter.  Or else run SOCKS.  That's the only way
I know how to do it at current.  There may be other ways or switches or
whatever that will make this combo work, but I'm not aware of them at the
moment.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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