From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 5 14:34:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA05325 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:34:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.davidv.net (davidv.net [206.138.229.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA05317 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:34:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@ns1.davidv.net) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 16:34:15 -0500 (CDT) From: David Vondrasek To: "Jasper O'Malley" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting up BSD as a gateway In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Jasper O'Malley wrote: > > > >>> Kevlyn 10/01 8:30 PM >>> > > I've gone through all the documentation and tried several different > > possibilities and now I am going to have to ask for help. What I've got > > is a pentium 133 w/64 RAM running 2.2.7 which connects to the interent > > and everything runs just fine. Now I am trying to route a second > > computer running Win95 to the internet using BSD as the gateway, I've > > enabled the gateway in rc.conf and still the Win machine can not seem to > > reach the internet, it makes connections to the BSD machine but can not > > access the internet. Does anyone have any ideas? > > How does it connect to the Internet? A dial-up line? How did you choose an > IP address for the Win95 box? > > If you're dialing in to a standard ISP dial-up account, chances are you've > only been allocated one IP address by the ISP. You'll have to run natd on > the FreeBSD box to allow the Win95 machine to connect, so that requests > from Win95 box look like they're coming from the BSD box (which has a > legitimate IP address). Why does he have to run natd ? I'm doing it wil out running natd. I just tell the win95 box it's gateway is the bsd box's IP. Note to 1st poster: You have set up internal IP's for each machine right? -- David L. Vondrasek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message