From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 29 7:48:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.intop.net (smtp.intop.net [206.156.254.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1751537B424 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 07:48:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from charlie (iwkcpe.intop.net [208.149.79.30]) by smtp.intop.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02402; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:49:55 -0500 Message-Id: <200009291449.JAA02402@smtp.intop.net> From: "Charlie Schloemer" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Rakesh Thakkar Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:50:12 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: FreeBSD as Gateway Problem In-reply-to: <39D294E5.B8E3F971@cell-works.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27 Sep 00, at 20:46, Rakesh Thakkar wrote: > 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.. When you try to ping your FreeBSD machine, are you pinging its internal or external address? Are you using any firewall rules on your gateway? -charlie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message