Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 22:28:22 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: charlespeters@tecpro.com Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modem Gateway to Allow Shared Access to ISP? Message-ID: <199806252128.WAA09348@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Jun 1998 04:47:05 -0000." <199806250848.EAA24887@ais.ais-gwd.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html does all this and more. > Date sent: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:14:50 -0700 (PDT) > From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> > To: "Charles A. Peters" <charlespeters@tecpro.com> > Copies to: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Modem Gateway to Allow Shared Access to ISP? > > > 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. > > > > These machines, all Win95 boxes are setup to do tcp/ip. Each has a local static > ip address in the following form: > > Tom's machine: 192.168.0.42 > Sheila's machine: 192.168.0.48 > Floras Machine: 192.168.0.41 > etc... > > The midpoint gateway is currently set to 192.168.0.1. This machine is assigned > a dynamic ip address (on the dialup adapter) upon connection with our ISP. The > midpoint gateway then forwards all traffic in and out as appropriate. It usually > works for http (WWW), but is very inconsistant for things shuch as email. > These inconsistancies are why I would like to switch out the midpoint in favor of > something that is more reliable (that I don't have to babysit). > > I invision this gateway using the ip address of 192.168.0.1 on the network card. > It then dials up the ISP whenever it detects any internet traffic (ie. www.cnn.com > or ftp.cdrom.com, or pop3/smtp, etc...). After all traffic has stopped for a few > minutes, it will disconnect from the isp, and then wait for more traffic, once it > sees it, the dialup/connnect process begins again. > > I will go with this method if I am given simple instructions (a point to the > appropriate docs) on how to accomplish this task. > > Thanks in advance for your assistance! > > Charles > > > > > > > Doug White | University of Oregon > > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > > > > > charlespeters@tecpro.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199806252128.WAA09348>