From owner-freebsd-net Tue Mar 23 14:11:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE47014CE8 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:10:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id OAA19009; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:10:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id OAA07943; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:10:32 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id PAA15205; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 15:10:24 -0700 Message-ID: <36F8115D.85E79B47@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 15:10:37 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick Brochu Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sharing a Cable modem connection References: <001d01be7576$635ecae0$0101a8c0@videotron.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Patrick Brochu wrote: > > Hi All: > Very simple question, hope the answer is as simple! > > I have a cable modem connected to ed1, configured by DHCP > I have my local network connected to ed2, configured with fixed ip address > 192.168.1.1 > > Both interfaces work properly, i can surf the web as well as browse my local > net. > > I would like to allow additional Win98 machines to access the internet > through my FreeBSD pc. Anybody could recommend a good way of doing that? > > Ideally this would not require me to set up any proxies or things like that > on my Win98 clients besides the Gateway. natd. Search for NAT or natd in the handbook, and feel free to direct any specific questions you have to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. You've got questions? They've got answers! ;^) -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message