Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 21:26:31 -0500 From: WOLF <travis@interlog.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: begginer looking at FreeBSD Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19980224022631.0067ae6c@mail.interlog.com>
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Hi,
My name is Brandon and have been researching BSD for the past
couple of days, and I am wondering what I should do, I was hoping you could
help me.
Ok here is my problems. I have two networked machines in my house
both running win95 and winnt. I have access to a 386 computer which I can
run Free BSD on. What I am thinking of doing is getting the computer and
installing a modem and a network card on it so it can be on my network.
With this computer running BSD I want it to dial up to my internet service
provider and act as a router for my two computers on the network so they can
access the internet. The system I have in place right now for getting my
computer withought the phone line to access the internet is a wingate proxy
server which is OK for accessing web pages, but I can not play games over
the net on my computer behind the firewall because it is not directly
connected, it only sends its requests to the proxy server. With the FreeBSD
running on the 386 I am hoping that it will act as a router and actually
allow my other two computers on the network to be registered on the
internet. So far, does this idea sound feasable?
Ok the next use for FreeBSD is to have my friend dial up to my
FreeBSD server/router, and get BSP to route the requests back and forth
amongst the two computers on the network and the computer connected over
the telephone line so it is just like a miny internet. I would be using the
TCP/ip protocol to communicate amongst the computer. Can FreeBSD handle
this sort of protocol, and can I install a modem on the system?
Wow that was a lot...
Well ok that seems about it, if you can give me any information
about the question I have asked and maybe would know of anything which would
help me attain my goals, I would be extremely greatful.
Thank you very much
Brandon E.
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