Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:29:40 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de> To: Kathy Quinlan <kat-free@kaqelectronics.dyndns.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Networking problem Message-ID: <20040304132606.T965@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <02af01c401de$810a4d40$fe00a8c0@wskatinka> References: <02af01c401de$810a4d40$fe00a8c0@wskatinka>
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On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Kathy Quinlan wrote: > I have a friend who can not get his FreeBSD 5.2 server to act as a > gateway, from the internal network we can ping the external network > card, but no further. From the server we can ping the entire world. > > I had him bring it over and set up my server (FreeBSD 4.8R as the > gateway) so I now have: > > <ISP>----<My Server>-------<his Server>-------<laptop> > > >From the laptop I can ping as far as the external nic on his server. > >From his server I can ping the world. > > I have googled, looked at the mailing list, but can not find the problem > :o( I have re installed the server, incase he goofed up, same problem, I > have swapped the external network card, same problem. > > Netstat -rn shows the default gateway (as my server) > > In rc.conf it has gateway_enable="YES" > > I am out of ideas What IP addresses are used within the internal network? If you use addresses like 10., 172.16.-172.31. or 192.168.1.-191.168.254., you should use natd instead of routed on the server connected to the world outside. Regards Konrad Heuer (kheuer2@gwdg.de) ____ ___ _______ GWDG / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ Germany
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