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From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
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Subject: Re: newbie networking/internet sharing question
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:11:05 -0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
To: "Rakesh Prajapati" <rakesh.prajapati@hsa.hitachi.com>;
<freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: newbie networking/internet sharing question


> ----- 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

P.S.  You will also have to set the gateway address on the Windows
machine to the IP of the FBSD box.


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