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From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
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Subject: Re: newbie networking/internet sharing question
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rakesh Prajapati" <rakesh.prajapati@hsa.hitachi.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 2:03 PM
Subject: newbie networking/internet sharing question


> I have 2  PCs networked at home, one runs FreeBSD 4.2 (192.168.0.1)
and
> Other Windows 2000 (192.168.0.2)
>
>
> I am able to ping from one to another.
>
> My Question is this
>
> 1) I use my FreeBSD PC to dial up at work and it assigns me a dynamic
> IP.
>
> How can I use my Windows Machine to connect to work (through my
FreeBSD
> machine) and also have the ability to work from my BSD m/c at the same
> time.
>
> I believe , FreeBSD needs to be set up as a proxy. Any suggestions on
> how to do this?
>
> Also , Once this works , is this any different from sharing an
internet
> connection when FreeBSD machine dials out to ISP.

I think it's as simple as adding gateway_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf
and then rebooting.  There's probably a way to do it without rebooting
but I don't know what it is.  I'm sure others will correct me if I'm
wrong but you can give it a try.  It shouldn't hurt anything.

HTH,

Drew


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