From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 28 17:54:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cell-works.com (cell-works.com [216.112.245.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5536437B424 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:54:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cell-works.com (cc774259-a.owml1.md.home.com [24.13.115.111]) by cell-works.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA11221 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:27:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rakesh@cell-works.com) Message-ID: <39D294E5.B8E3F971@cell-works.com> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 20:46:29 -0400 From: Rakesh Thakkar X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD as Gateway Problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Everyone. I am trying to configure my FreeBSD 3.4-R as a Gateway. I have my FreeBSD machine up and running on the cable modem and I have another NIC in the machine which is configured to use IP of 192.168.1.1. I have a windows 98 machine that I wanted to use to connect to the internet via the FreeBSD machine. My Windows 98 machine has a address of 192.168.1.11. I have gone to the handbook on the internet and configured the windows machine. The only thing is that when the connection is not active. I can ping the windows machine from my FreeBSD machine but I cannot ping my FreeBSD machine from my Windows machine. I don't know why this is not working. I am a newbie.. Please help.. Here is the configuration on my windows machine. Identification tab: Computer Name: win98 workgroup: Jehovah Configuration Tab: TCP/IP properties of my NIC: Specify an IP address: 192.168.1.11 SN Mask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.1.1 DNS Configuration: Host: win98 Domain: (empty) DNS search order: 24.3.0.38 24.3.0.39 I don't know if I am missing anything on the windows side. Here is the layout Can Ping from FreeBSD machine to Windows 98 machine. --------- ---------- -- ---------- | | | | | | | Windows 98 | ==========| 10/100 Switch |===========| FreeBSD |==== Cable modem |--------- ------------ --------- 192.168.1.11 al0 NIC 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 255.255.255.0 ed1 NIC DHCP from ISP Cannot Ping from Windows 98 machine to FreeBSD machine Thank you for your help. I really appreciate it. Rakesh Thakkar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message