Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 10:11:59 -0600 (MDT) From: Joe Loughry <loughry@uswest.net> To: david@banning.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using win95 PC off of FreeBSD Message-ID: <200010071611.KAA01632@miranda.dnvr.uswest.net>
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This the the other half of the answer. To use your FreeBSD machine's Internet connection to support the Windows 95 box, you need some kind of network connection between the two computers, i.e., a home LAN. To set this up, buy a couple of cheap ethernet cards, one for each machine, and an ethernet hub. (You can use a "crossover cable" between the two machines if you don't want to buy a hub, but a hub doesn't cost very much [maybe 40 dollars] and it will let you connect up more than two machines later.) Be sure to get an ethernet card for the FreeBSD machine that is supported by FreeBSD (almost all of them are); 3Com and Intel both make good ones, and there is a list of supported cards in The FreeBSD Handbook and in The Complete FreeBSD. If the card you want is already in the GENERIC kernel (very likely), you won't need to do anything else; otherwise, make an entry for the card you've bought in your kernel configuration file (see LINT) and rebuild the kernel. It is necessary to make a few adjustments here and there to tell FreeBSD about your new network. First, choose IP addresses for the two machines. 192.168.1.1 is a good address for the FreeBSD machine, and 192.168.1.2 is a good address for the Windows 95 machine. These are special addresses reserved for private networks. The netmask is 255.255.255.255 and all this information goes in your /etc/rc.conf file on the FreeBSD machine: add "ed0" (or whatever your new ethernet device is) to the "network_interfaces" line and add another line that looks like this: ifconfig_ed0="inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.255" matching the addition to the "network_interfaces" entry. (You said you already have dialup to the Internet working on the FreeBSD computer, so I am assuming that your hostname, default router, DNS, and PPP interfaces are already working.) On the Windows 95 computer, install the ethernet card according to the instructions that came with it. Then configure TCP/IP networking in the Control Panel, specifying 192.168.1.2 for the IP address and 255.255.255.255 for the netmask, and 192.168.1.1 (the IP address of your FreeBSD machine on the internal LAN) for the "default gateway". Leave everything about DHCP and WINS turned off, and put your ISP's nameserver(s) IP addresses into the DNS search list on the Windows machine as described below. The FreeBSD Handbook (http://www.freebsd.org) and Greg Lehey's excellent book "The Complete FreeBSD" both contain much more detailed information on setting up networking on FreeBSD. -Joe Loughry loughry@uswest.net > Yes, it's certainly possible; in fact I do it here. > > Once you have on-demand dialup to the Internet working on your FreeBSD > box, make sure you have GATEWAY_ENABLE="YES" in your /etc/rc.conf file > (then kill -HUP 1 to force init to reread the file). > > You'll need an ethernet card in the Windows 95 computer and one in the > FreeBSD computer (I will assume you have a little LAN set up already). > > On the Windows 95 box, go into Settings, Control Panel, Network, and > set the "default router" to the IP address of your FreeBSD machine on > your internal LAN. Fill in the DNS name server field with the IP > address(es) of your ISP's nameservers (same as in the /etc/resolv.conf > file on your FreeBSD machine). Naturally, your Windows 95 computer > has its own IP address on the internal LAN--may as well enter that in > your /etc/hosts file on the FreeBSD box. > > After you reboot Windows 95 :-) it should be able to see the Internet > through your FreeBSD connection. My wife's AOL works fine. It even > triggers auto-dial on the FreeBSD box properly. > > -Joe Loughry > loughry@uswest.net > > > Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 18:34:24 GMT > > From: "David Banning" <david@www3.pacific-pages.com> > > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: using win95 PC off of FreeBSD > > Reply-To: david@banning.com > > > > I would like to have a Win 95 PC running - but to get it's internet > > connection through my FreeBSD PC. My FreeBSD is just running a > > dialup connection - auto connect. > > > > Is what I want to do possible? How would I go about it? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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