From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 16:54:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01157 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:22:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06966 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:38:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA22327; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 20:04:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 20:04:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Alex Boisvert cc: "Justin L. Ogden" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Lantastic...and stuff In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Alex Boisvert wrote: > > I just got offered to do a project up at the local airport where I'm > > from, and they want to use FreeBSD for their connection to the > > internet. They already have a Lantastic 7.0 network setup. The two > > machines that they have now are running Windows 3.1 and the Lantastic > > 7.0 software. They want to have one connection to the net all the time > > through the FreeBSD machine and be able to acccess it from any machine > > on the network. Does anyone know if I will need to configure Lantastic > > to do the job, or should I get the upgrade paches and just use Windows > > networking. Is this going to effect the existing network??? > > If you want them to use the internet through a gateway, you'll have to > upgrade to Windows for Workgroups (3.11) to get TCP/IP on your network (in > addition to Lantastic protocol). You can't just add a winsock.dll like > many do for a dialup connection. Or buy LAN WorkPlace from Novell (if it's still around). LANTastic may have an add-on to teach LanTastic nodes how to speak TCP/IP. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major