Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 21:36:59 -0400 From: charlespeters@tecpro.com To: "Child" <child@mctcnet.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Midpoint gateway evuiq for freebsd Message-ID: <001601bdc011$8a12b220$20710418@ci1000971-c.sptnbrg1.sc.home.com> In-Reply-To: <199808071639.LAA03059@gw.sommers.dyn.ml.org>
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I use to use Midpoint gateway (for about 1 month). While it did most of what it was advertised to do, email, ftp, telnet, etc... were just to cumbersome to deal with. Also, the Windoze box would lock up periodically. I am currently using freebsd 2.2.6 release to do essentially the same thing. I'm routing tcp/ip packets from a Novell Netware network populated with Windows95 boxes through the freebsd gateway. While the setup is really quite easy (once you know what is going on), it will take the average newbee several hours to get up and running. Since I see that you are an experienced user, you should not have the problems that I encountered. You will need to set up you freebsd box as a gateway, and configure ppp -alias. You can even set up the gateway to act as a proxy server, and to be an intranet server (that's what I did). I am quite pleased with the performance of the system. I am also pleased the say the email, telnet, and ftp operate seemlessly. Your network users really don't even need to know that you are doing anything special. The following location has good info on how to set up the system. http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ppp/ppp.html Good Luck! Charles -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Child Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 4:33 PM To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: sommer@mctcnet.net Subject: Midpoint gateway evuiq for freebsd Dear All I am just wondering if there is a program for Freebsd that would act like Midpoint Gateway for M$ Windows 95/nt midpoint gateway is a WWW proxy that dynamically grabs files over 2 separate dialup networking connections, to make it faster this isn't multi link its just using the 2 separate connections this is for ISP's that don't support multi link I'd like to do the same under with my FreeBSD system somehow, using Freebsd as a dial out is slower since I'm limited to 1 modem since I cant find out how to do this...Windows 95 Midpoint setup is faster but much the setup bites :) anyone have any ideas Please CC: me back thanks, Jeremy Samual Sommer, FreeBSD User since 2.1 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
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