From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 3 11:11:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA27050 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 11:11:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cais.cais.com (cais.com [199.0.216.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA27045 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 11:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@mat.net [205.252.122.1]) by cais.cais.com (8.6.10/8.6.5) with ESMTP id OAA26774; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 14:11:43 -0400 Received: from earth.mat.net (mark@earth.mat.net [205.252.122.1]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA00938; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 14:11:39 -0400 Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 14:11:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Mathis To: Daniel Kligerman cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Win95 to FreeBSD through Ethernet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Daniel Kligerman wrote: > What IP address do I use for the Win95 machine? Do I just pick a > non-public address for it? For the dns IP I assume I put in the static > IP of my internet account? No, you need to get a class "C" from your provider. Once you connect your win95 machine to your freebsd machine that is connected to the internet the win95 machine will be able to reach the whole world and the world will be able to reach it. The address needs to be a valid address assigned to you. Are you running dns on your freebsd machine? > > How about on the FreeBSD end? > add the win95 machine into ppp.sys and addr-map ****************************************************************************** /\ Mark Mathis Micro Access Technologies "Behind every successful /\/\ Mark@Mat.Net PO Box 92224 cat is an obedient owner" /\/\/\ 202/529-5001 Washington, DC 20090 ******************************************************************************