Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 20:09:54 -0400 From: "Stephen A. Derdau" <sderdau@bit-net.com> To: -kevin- <kathey@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for a Gateway How-To Message-ID: <3575E5D2.446B9B3D@bit-net.com> References: <3.0.5.32.19980602170553.00920bc0@netmail.home.net>
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I believe you want to change your rc.conf file where is says gateway put in yes: gateway_enable="YES" # Set to YES if this host will be a gateway. Also this link may help http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ppp/ppp.html -kevin- wrote: > > How do you make a machine a gateway? > I am looking for simple step by step instructions. > Please reply to this email address as I am NOT on this mailing list. > > I have read the 'Red' book (Unix System Administrators Handbook) and I have > read the 'Crab' book (TCP/IP Network Administration by Craig Hunt). I have > fiddled and fiddled with 'routed' and '/etc/gateways'. I think 'gated' is > overkill for what I want to do. > > I have name resolution working but I can't get a packet through the FreeBSD > machine and back to my machine. I am the root and the administrator on all > machines involved so I can change anything which needs to be changed. I > just don't know what to do. > > My configuration: > The 486-based FreeBSD machine has two network cards. One card links to the > Internet via a cable modem. This works fine and great. I can do all > things internet from the FreeBSD machine. The second card connects to my > Intranet where I have some Windows NT 4.0 machines. I can even 'ping' the > Windows NT machines. From the Windows NT machine I can ping both network > cards in the FreeBSD machine, I can even resolve any name. > > But if I try to 'ping', 'ftp', 'http' or anything else it just won't do it > and the 'tracert' (Windows NT name for 'traceroute') shows the packets > getting to the FreeBSD machine just fine, but then they never get any further. > > I can probably give you more information that you ever need but I am just > hoping that someone else has done this. I figure this is a common thing to > do and I am looking for a straightforward discussion of exactly what I am > supposed to do to make it work. > > I am a software engineer for Windows and would consider myself quite adept > (isn't that what all engineers say) at most things computer like, it's just > that it has been 12 years since I used UNIX on a daily basis. > > * -kevin- * > * sick with the good infection * > * kathey@pobox.com * > * http://www.pobox.com/~kathey * > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- "FreeBSD It's That and Much Much More" Find out Why @ http://www.freebsd.org Stephen A. Derdau To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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