Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 13:29:13 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Nils Holland <ncptiddische@compuserve.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Routing / IP-Forwarding Message-ID: <386FC329.3F91C269@3-cities.com> References: <200001021619_MC2-9312-39B0@compuserve.com>
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Nils Holland wrote: > > Hi folks, > here's another problem I'm trying to solve: > > I wanted to set up my FreeBSD-Box as a router in order to route IP-traffic > between the local network and the Internet. The first thing I did was > setting up a PPP-connection to my ISP on the FreeBSD machine. This > connection is working and I can access the web from the BSD-box without any > problems. In the ppp.conf script I used the add default HISADDR command in > order to set the default route to my ISP. > > Then I went to the NT workstations around here and made some changes to > their network-configuration. For the TCP/IP protocoll I added my BSD-box as > gateway and my ISPs DNS-Server as DNS. I rebooted and though it must work, > but it didn't. Trying to access a website from the NT workstation failed, > just like trying to ping a host outside of the local network. > > I thought that maybe my default-route on the BSD-box might not come up > properly, but using the route monitor command while doing the PPP > connection showed me that it does come up the way it's supposed to. > > Now I'm kinda clueless. I remember that on Linux I had to use some > ipforward / ipchains command in order to set up IP-Forwarding, but all > documents I've read about FreeBSD didn't mention such things. > > BTW: The problem should not be related to my DNS-setup, since I can not > ping remote machines by both host-name and IP-adress... > > Any cluse what I'm doing wrong? Help is always appreciated! Did you start user-ppp with "ppp -nat"? Kent > > Thanks, > Nils > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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