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Date:      Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:08:46 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "R. Beasley" <alucarde@pds.internal.enteract.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NAT and gateways
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811181208000.14521-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <365272D2.41C67EA6@pds.internal.enteract.com>

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On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, R. Beasley wrote:

> I'm having problems regarding setting my machine up as a gateway.  Right
> now, I have 3 machines on a LAN:  mine has FreeBSD and my brother is
> running a Slackware & Win95 box. What I want to do is connect to the
> 'net w/ my machine & have the other computers share the access.
> 
> I already set up the firewall & properly set up ipfw as the handbook &
> FAQ said to.  I also went through the docs and ran natd as specified by
> the natd manpages.
> 
> I made some headway, however.  I can resolve IPs from the Win95 box
> (trying to ping random WWW servers) but I don't get any responses...
> 
> Does anyone know of any complete walkthroughs to set this up (via user
> PPP for now) and if so, could they help me?

You're doing it the hard way if you're using usermode ppp.  Simply throw
the -alias option on to your ppp command line, point the client machines
at the FreeBSD machine, and have at it.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | www.freebsd.org


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