Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 20:04:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Alex Boisvert <boia01@gel.usherb.ca> Cc: "Justin L. Ogden" <jlo@csrlink.net>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Lantastic...and stuff Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112200350.22079m-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980108075040.15862C-100000@teel.info-noire.com>
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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
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