From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 21 18: 0:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shemp.palomine.net (shemp.palomine.net [205.198.88.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C881410FE3 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 18:00:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjohnson@palomine.net) Received: (qmail 22166 invoked by uid 1000); 22 Feb 1999 02:00:46 -0000 Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 21:00:46 -0500 From: Chris Johnson To: MPN Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Important Question... Message-ID: <19990221210046.A22081@palomine.net> References: <000701be5e05$cd3061a0$04c809c0@kramer.cms.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <000701be5e05$cd3061a0$04c809c0@kramer.cms.com>; from MPN on Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 08:51:01PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 08:51:01PM -0500, MPN wrote: > I have a problem. I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.6. Currently I'm running > RoadRunner Cable ISP. I have a home network of about 6 computers which want > to get onto the internet through my FreeBSD server. I'm trying to find a > good proxy for FreeBSD. Right now I'm using Wingate on a Win95 machine. I > need a program similar to this. What the problem with using packet > forwarding is that Road Runner's firewalls block all IP packets that don't > have their IP in the source header. So, I need a program like Wingate which > will do this translation and let my network see the internet. Any help is > greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. natd should do what you want. Try man natd for starters. You'll also need to compile a kernel with the options IPFIREWALL and IPDIVERT and set a few things in rc.conf, namely natd_enable, natd_interface, and gateway_enable. If you're using RoadRunner, you probably also need to set up DHCP. Take a look at http://home.san.rr.com/freebsd/dhcp.html Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message