From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 3 14:40:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA21599 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 14:40:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Innovations.Direct-Source.com (root@Direct-Source.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA21589 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 14:40:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@direct-source.com) Received: from direct-source.com.direct-source.com (ppp90-pm3-pdx-1.Direct-Source.com [207.149.41.90]) by Innovations.Direct-Source.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA27948; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 14:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 14:34:25 -0700 () From: Rick Hamell To: Jonathan Chen cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP and Win95 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@direct-source.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I'm trying to replace a Linux Modem Server with a FreeBSD 2.2.6 > > modem server. The problem I'm having is that my Win95 boxes won't connect > > to the FreeBSD machine. > > Can you ping your FreeBSD box from your Win95 boxes? Not at all, they don't see each other at all. The Linux box had DHCP enabled, do I maybe need that? Right now the two 95 machines don't even seen each other, which leads me to believe that possibly DHCP needs to be loaded. I've got TCP/IP loaded on both those. > >I made the /windows/hosts file as was suggested in > > the handbook, and have changed the Windows Networking stuff as suggested, > > except for one thing. The DNS server asked for and host name should be my > > ISP, or the FreeBSD box? > > Depends. If you've got a DNS running on your FreeBSD box you'd enter > it that. If not, use your ISP's. That maybe part of the problem, I'm not sure if I have DNS running right. Would that also be the 192.168.1.4 number? > Also make sure that /etc/rc.conf has the line: > > gateway_enable="YES" I do have this enabled. Thanks for the help. :0 Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message