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Date:      Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:39:45 -0500
From:      "Andrew Gould" <andrewlylegould@gmail.com>
To:        "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@msu.edu>
Cc:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, questions@freebsd.org, Manish Jain <unxfbsdi@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system
Message-ID:  <d356c5630810140839j69877b7anb4990fb69a1bb678@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081014150109.GB8023@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
References:  <48F43EB1.40304@gmail.com> <20081014095228.P92028@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081014150109.GB8023@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>

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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 09:52:54AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>
> > >internet. My freebsd 6.2 box is connected to the internet and has 2
> > >network cards, rl0 and rl1. rl0 connects to the ISP and rl1 is directly
> > >connected via a long Ethernet cable to the NIC on my dad's machine.
> While
> > >I can access the internet easily, I want my dad to be able to connect to
> > >the internet with my freebsd box serving as the gateway. Can anyone
> please
> > >explain to me in easy steps how to accomplish this ?
> > >
>

If you use (or are willing to use) IPFirewall, this should help:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-natd.html

Best of luck,

Andrew



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