From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 19 10:57:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA22855 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 10:57:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.sns.com (jack.sns.com [199.35.183.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA22845 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 10:57:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from speedy.pcscons.net by mail.sns.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0x0sXE-0006xAC; Tue, 19 Aug 97 10:57 PDT Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19970819105450.00820a60@mail.sns.com> X-Sender: ludwigp@mail.sns.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.2 (32) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 10:54:50 -0700 To: Charles Mott , Hank Kuczynski From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: IP routing? Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 08:40 AM 8/19/97 -0700, Charles Mott wrote: >On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Hank Kuczynski wrote: >> If you hadn't guessed by now, my goal here is to be able to play Quake and other internet games that can't negotiate a proxy server from my other win95 machines.... >> >> Can FreeBSD help me in this situation? Would I be better off with Linux? I've heard of people being able to do this successfully with Linux in the past. >> >> Let me know! >> >> Thanks very much. >> >> -Hank Kuczynski >> > >You may wish to try natd (network address translation daemon), written by >Ari Suutari, available at > > http://ftp.suutari.iki.fi/pub/natd > >The software has also made it into the -stable and -current developement >branches. It turns out that Ari has a cable modem at home like you do, >and this was one of his motivations for writing the software. > >You will be able to ping from within your internal network, but I don't >know whether Quake will work. If it is an IP encoding protocol, there >will have to some work. > >Charles Mott It will not work for Quake becuase the quake server can only handle one client coming from a single IP address. So only one of your computers can be connected to the same quake server at the same time. Or you can set up a server on the FreeBSD machine... If a single client coming from your lan is fine, look for proxying client-side quake bots. There are some that cheat for you, and there are some which simply allow you to do what you want to do. One that I was looking at was the Terminator Bot (sorry, don't have the URL). --Ludwig Pummer ------------------------------------------------------------------ ludwigp@bigfoot.com ICQ UIN: 692441 http://chipweb.home.ml.org PGP Key & Geek Code available on web page ^-- Updated 07/01/97