From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 10 14:55:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23BF537B733 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 14:55:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12em9A-000CzR-00; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:55:04 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12em99-000AzE-00; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:55:03 +0100 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:55:03 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: William Freeman Cc: Robert Small , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD networking Message-ID: <20000410225503.Q60798@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <38F249BD.A518BF30@picusnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38F249BD.A518BF30@picusnet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG William Freeman wrote: > What is called IP Masqurading to the Linux-based GNU world. i don't know the It's called NAT (Network Address Translation) to everyone except Linux users. Robert, if you connect to the internet over a modem, "man ppp", it can do NAT itself. If you use something else (xDSL perhaps), look at "natd". I'd recommend you get the BSD box's Internet connection working before you try getting Win98 to work through it though, so you know where the problem is, if any. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message