From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 1 23:29:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA06047 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 23:29:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from buffy.tpgi.com.au (buffy.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06030 for ; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 23:29:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eirvine@tpgi.com.au) Received: (from smtpd@localhost) by buffy.tpgi.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA22448; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 16:31:29 +1000 Received: from tar-ppp-160.tpgi.com.au(203.26.26.160), claiming to be "tpgi.com.au" via SMTP by buffy.tpgi.com.au, id smtpda22440; Sun Aug 2 16:31:24 1998 Message-ID: <35C40784.D76EF3AF@tpgi.com.au> Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 16:30:28 +1000 From: Eddie Irvine X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: david@magickalhome.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD as a proxy server Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David, Are you actually running FreeBSD? You do not need to use natd to connect your W95 machine on a private lan to the internet, all you need is FreeBSD and its ppp program. The ppp program (not pppd) in FreeBSD will connect your LAN to the internet and do ip aliasing for you. (maybe pppd does ip aliasing as well?) I use this to connect 45+ Macs and one PC to the internet. I got started by following "the pedantic ppp primer" at http://www.au.freebsd.org/tutorials/ppp/ppp.html Later on you can add squid to speed it up. See also http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/eirvine/freebsd/hermione.html Getting computers to talk to each other is never easy to begin with... Good Luck Eddie. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message