From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 14 20:18:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pi.yip.org (yip.org [199.45.111.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9745037B42C for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:18:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (melange@localhost) by pi.yip.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA25393; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 23:17:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 23:17:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob K X-Sender: melange@localhost To: Wayne M Barnes Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Location of IP masqurade docs In-Reply-To: <200009150310.WAA06226@klentaq.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would suggest: man natd It's got a rather handy step-by-step explanation for doing this sort of thing. On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Wayne M Barnes wrote: > Dear Stablizers, > > My 4.0 system dials out over an external modem, and I have > here at home a W98 system connected to the FreeBSD system > over ethernet, expecting the FreeBSD system to be the Gateway. > > How do I set this up? Just setting gateway_enable="YES" > does not seem to be enough. "IP masquerade" only appears in > the hype/advertising sections of the handbook directory, > as far as I can find. > > Is there another technical name for this? > > I would be grateful for more recipe hints. My system > does dial out and connect to the world using ppp, but noow > I want to share this connection with other computers in the house. > > The FreeBSD system's rc.conf.local specifies ip addresses as: > ifconfig_ppp0="" > ifconfig_dc0="inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0" > hostname="chica.renaldo.net" > > That last host name is not really legal. Is that a problem? > In /etc/resolv.conf, I actually have another domain name set > (the one of my IP, a university). > > Well, I don't want to go on too long, if you can just > please answer with a nice link to a detailed recipe, or > a few .conf files that work for you, I would be ever so > grateful. > > Thank you, > > Wayne M Barnes stabilizer@klentaq.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- Bob "I'm Canadian, and I can't photocopy my ass without the RCMP coming after me." - bigkahuna@scowling.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message