From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 19:07:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA03723 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:07:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA03697 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:06:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA08294; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:06:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:06:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Mitch James cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Private network & routing to the internet via PPP w/one In-Reply-To: <199609250155.SAA12427@dns2.noc.best.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Mitch James wrote: > > Question: Are the private LAN's IP addresses Internet-legal? If yes, you > > should be able to enable gatewaying in /etc/sysconfig and all should be > > well. If not, you'll have to use SOCKS or NAT as a proxy server. > > Not sure if the private network RFC 1597 IP's 192.168.x.x are > concidered legal. I've set up my private network using this series > of IP's. The Win95 machine can telnet into the BSD box just fine and > then out. I want to be able to have my office use the Windoze > programs to shield them from a real OS. ;-) No. 192.168 is a private-use-only ip. So this means that you'll have to convert it to something your upstream provider can deal with using SOCKS or NAT. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major