Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:20:21 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> To: benjamin thielsen <bthielsen@safarivideonetworks.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system Message-ID: <20081014122021.GA10739@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <00F22CA4-ABCE-4ED4-9D95-D29C38CD80E7@safarivideonetworks.com> References: <48F43EB1.40304@gmail.com> <00F22CA4-ABCE-4ED4-9D95-D29C38CD80E7@safarivideonetworks.com>
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El día Tuesday, October 14, 2008 a las 08:10:42AM -0400, benjamin thielsen escribió: > Manish Jain wrote: > > > > >Hi, > > > >I am poor at networking and need a little bit of help. My dad has a > >Windows 2000 machine with a network card but does not have a > >connection > >to the internet. My freebsd 6.2 box is connected to the internet and > >has > >2 network cards, rl0 and rl1. rl0 connects to the ISP and rl1 is > >directly connected via a long Ethernet cable to the NIC on my dad's > >machine. While I can access the internet easily, I want my dad to be > >able to connect to the internet with my freebsd box serving as the > >gateway. Can anyone please explain to me in easy steps how to > >accomplish > >this ? > > > > Although to many old-timers this is easily achieved, to someone new to > networking it is difficult to explain it in "easy steps". It involves > a set > of pieces that have to fit together correctly in order to work. You will > need to do some proper reading on the underlying concepts first. You wrote the same mail 6 times (at least) to the mailing-list; I've checked the Message-ID lines, all are diffrent: <B2833B23-E0B8-4D24-8B59-9054CC612914@safarivideonetworks.com> <00F22CA4-ABCE-4ED4-9D95-D29C38CD80E7@safarivideonetworks.com> <3304F61B-C904-4D6B-AD90-3529C0CDDC81@safarivideonetworks.com> <89831744-5AB2-4976-945A-B320DD587E17@safarivideonetworks.com> ... please stop that; thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ A computer is like an air conditioner, it stops working when you open Windows Una computadora es como aire acondicionado, deja de funcionar si abres Windows
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