Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 16:56:25 +0000 From: "Timothy R. Simmons" <tsimmons77@comcast.net> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to connect laptop and desktop w/NICs Message-ID: <200304131656.26005.tsimmons77@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20030413121355.GA96192@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20030411121053.GA77709@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3E96CEFE.4030605@potentialtech.com> <20030413121355.GA96192@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Sunday 13 April 2003 12:13 pm, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > So far, so good. I can ping each machine from the other, and reset these > settings on startup. > > However, the laptop (which I decided to make a client of the desktop, now > that I have a modem for the desktop) cannot ping past the gateway. I have > the default router set to the desktop, but something else must be wrong. > > Do I need to have inetd or natd running explicitly for this to work? > > jcm You do need to have natd running, along with a few other things. Check out http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/natd.html That should get you on the right path. Tim. No fancy signature here.
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