From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 8 05:04:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA12846 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 05:04:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from teel.info-noire.com (XP11-1-4-01.interlinx.qc.ca [207.253.79.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA12838 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 05:04:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from boia01@gel.usherb.ca) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by teel.info-noire.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA17586; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 07:53:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alex@teel.info-noire.com) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 07:53:16 -0500 (EST) From: Alex Boisvert Reply-To: boia01@gel.usherb.ca To: "Justin L. Ogden" cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Lantastic...and stuff In-Reply-To: <34B3E046.D072C0E4@csrlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. Alex.