From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 5 13:30:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA17789 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 May 1997 13:30:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA17780 for ; Mon, 5 May 1997 13:30:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA14385; Mon, 5 May 1997 22:30:00 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA09023; Mon, 5 May 1997 22:06:37 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970505220637.WC59407@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 22:06:37 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: sderdau@xtdl.com (Stephen Derdau) Subject: Re: 2nd machine without class c address References: <199705051252.IAA14968@user.xtdl.com> <199705051532.RAA20790@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199705051532.RAA20790@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>; from Wolfgang Helbig on May 5, 1997 17:32:48 +0200 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Wolfgang Helbig wrote: > Your first machine needs another ip address (like 10.0.0.1) on the > local ethernet interface. > Then your class c machine has to be configured as a gateway. > Change the gateway="NO" line in sysconfig to gateway="YES and reboot > or do a This won't help him much. Remember, he's using an internal IP address that is not routed. He either needs NAT (network address translation) on the machine with the connection to outside, or in case all he wants to do with the internal box is things like WWW and mail, he can do it by using proxies. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)