From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 22 20:18:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA13574 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 20:18:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA13565 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 20:18:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA12453; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 20:18:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 20:18:31 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: technics@home.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Networking Winblows and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <35106DCF.568A819B@home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Mar 1998 technics@home.com wrote: > I have a Cable modem internet conenction, and have a few computers > theat I would like to hook up, although I only have one IP. I was > reading the section in the documentation about using a FreeBSD machine > as a gateway. Would this mean that I could use a phony set of IP's, > like the numbers that are unused, then run a firewall/proxy server on > the BSD gateway, and have the BSD box be the actual IP? If this is the > case, would > I be able to run say a quake server on the BSD machine and other > processes while using the other computers? Thanks for all info. I think so, yes. You can't reach any of the machines behind the alias from the outside world, but assuming your BSD box is the gateway you should be able to run any servers you like without difficutly, assuming your ISP isn't blocking it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message