From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 2 04:08:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA17307 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 04:08:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA17270 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 04:08:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA24334; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 11:53:29 GMT Message-Id: <199711021153.LAA24334@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Scott Ginn cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gateway In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 01 Nov 1997 22:57:11 MST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 11:53:28 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hello I am looking for help regarding the gateway in FreeBSD 2.2.5. > I had setup the gateway option in rc.conf and also setup ppp and used the > -alias and everything works fine in that i can connect to ftp's irc so on. > but i tried to run a ftpd on my windows machine (one connected through the > gateway) and i wasnt able to connect to it from an outside machine. So the > question is, am i able to setup a program that enables other computers to > connect to my local network. You can redirect connections like this: alias port winmach:ftp ftp in ppp.conf. This means that people can't ftp your gateway machine - they end up on the internal ``winmach''. > Thank you Scott I'm not Scott :-) -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....