From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 23 18:27:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA17835 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 18:27:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp.interlog.com (root@smtp.interlog.com [198.53.145.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA17820 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 18:26:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from travis@interlog.com) Received: from thescrewed (ip203-10.cc.interlog.com [207.34.203.10]) by smtp.interlog.com (8.8.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA08916 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 21:26:56 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19980224022631.0067ae6c@mail.interlog.com> X-Sender: travis@mail.interlog.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 21:26:31 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: WOLF Subject: begginer looking at FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message