From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 24 10:38:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA18404 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:38:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.bit-net.com (dns1.bit-net.com [208.146.132.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA18326 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:37:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sderdau@bit-net.com) Received: from bit-net.com (sderdau.bit-net.com [208.146.135.247]) by mail.bit-net.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16386; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:37:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35913988.D2531211@bit-net.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:38:16 -0400 From: "Stephen A. Derdau" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: charlespeters@tecpro.com CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modem Gateway to Allow Shared Access to ISP? References: <199806240325.XAA16616@ais.ais-gwd.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think you may want to try setting up your FreeBSD as a gateway in your /etc/rc.conf file You'll also want to use ppp -auto -alias check out http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html or the http://www.freebsd.org/ documentation section Hope this helps. Charles A. Peters wrote: > > I would like to allow users on a novell 3.12 network to access the internet via a > freebsd gateway, with a 56k modem through our local ISP. > > I am currently doing this semi-successfully with a product called Midpoint > Gateway for Windows 95/NT. The problem is that my users are having one hell > of a time sending and receiving email (WWW access is just great). There is not > much web browsing, but there is a considerable amount of emailing. The > Midpoint gateway does not easily allow users to send and receive email (the > setup is confusing and does not work consistantly). > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks in advance. > > Charles Peters > > charlespeters@tecpro.com > > charlespeters@tecpro.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD It's That And More http://www.FreeBSD.org /SD http://sderdau.bit-net.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message