Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:14:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Charles A. Peters" <charlespeters@tecpro.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modem Gateway to Allow Shared Access to ISP? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980624211322.29163k-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199806240325.XAA16616@ais.ais-gwd.com>
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On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, 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). What protocol are you using for email? Why not just replace the gateway with a FreeBSD box and run natd on it, and set up the windows machines to do tcp/ip directly (if they aren't already)? natd is very transparent and can handle most types of traffic without modification. 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
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