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From: John Johnson <ioann_j@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Accessing FreeBSD Gateway from Another FreeBSD Machine
To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
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Still no dice. I'm thinking of trying a crossover
cable to see if that might help, but other than that,
I'm stumped (no big thing, given that I'm still way
too green with FBSD..) :-)

John

--- Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> John Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > Kent,
> > 
> > Thanks for the quick response. I cleaned out a lot
> of
> > deadwood from rc.conf on both machines, verified
> > defaultrouter (set to external gateway IP address
> on
> > the gateway machine and internal gateway IP
> address on
> > the client), and added a second nameserver to
> > resolv.conf for both machines. No dice. Any other
> > suggestions?
> 
> I do have all 5 of my machines in the hosts files on
> all systems. This
> includes each version of Windows that I multi-boot
> and FreeBSD.
> 
> Kent
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > John
> > 
> > --- Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > John Johnson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I've built a FreeBSD machine which I am using
> as a
> > > > gateway and firewall. I have no problem
> pinging
> > > the
> > > > gateway machine and accessing the Web from a
> > > Windows
> > > > 2000 laptop which I have sitting behind the
> > > firewall,
> > > > but I am unable to do either from a second
> FreeBSD
> > > > box, which also sits behind the firewall and
> on
> > > which
> > > > I would like to run Samba and Apache. I am,
> > > however,
> > > > able to connect to the Web when I plug
> directly
> > > into
> > > > my DSL router, which is how I installed
> FreeBSD,
> > > so I
> > > > know the NIC is working.
> > > >
> > > > I know that I'm probably missing something
> > > glaringly
> > > > obvious, but I can't seem to figure out what.
> I've
> > > > also tried with Linux with the same results.
> Be
> > > happy
> > > > to post netstat and/or route output if someone
> can
> > > > steer me in the right direction.
> > >
> > > Sounds like you didn't add a
> > > "defaultrouter="IP_FBSD_Machine"" into
> > > your /etc/rc.conf. Depending on how you have
> things
> > > setup there may be
> > > other settings. I have a static IP and specify
> my
> > > ISP's DNS servers in
> > > resolv.conf.
> > >
> > > Kent
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance for the help,
> > > > John Johnson
> > > >
> > > >
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