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From: John Murphy <john253@crosswinds.net>
To: Rakesh Thakkar <rakesh@cell-works.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD as Gateway Problem
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:46:12 +0100
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Rakesh Thakkar <rakesh@cell-works.com> wrote:

>Hello Everyone.
>
>I am trying to configure my FreeBSD 3.4-R as a Gateway.  I have my
>FreeBSD machine up and running on the cable modem and I have another NIC
>in the machine which is configured to use IP of 192.168.1.1.  I have a
>windows 98 machine that I wanted to use to connect to the internet via
>the FreeBSD machine.   My Windows 98 machine has a address of
>192.168.1.11.   I have gone to the handbook on the internet and
>configured the windows machine.  The only thing is that when the
>connection is not active.
>I can ping the windows machine from my FreeBSD machine but I cannot ping
>my FreeBSD machine from my Windows machine.  I don't know why this is
>not working. I am a newbie.. Please help..
>
<Some snipage>
>
>Cannot Ping from Windows 98 machine to  FreeBSD machine
>
I see no mention of the hosts file on your windows machine.  If you find
you can ping 192.168.1.1 ok but cant ping the FreeBSD machine by name,
then you probably don't have a hosts file in the windows directory.
Look at hosts.sam for details.

HTH
John.


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