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Date:      Thu, 8 Jan 1998 07:53:16 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alex Boisvert <boia01@gel.usherb.ca>
To:        "Justin L. Ogden" <jlo@csrlink.net>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Lantastic...and stuff
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980108075040.15862C-100000@teel.info-noire.com>
In-Reply-To: <34B3E046.D072C0E4@csrlink.net>

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> 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.

Alex.




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