From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 6 21: 7:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pdxpo.dsl-only.net (sub16-3.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.16.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D65E37B401 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 21:07:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pdxmax@dsl-only.net) Received: from 192.168.45.3 (unverified [63.105.29.28]) by pdxpo.dsl-only.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.5.4) with ESMTP id for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 21:03:08 -0700 Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 21:04:04 -0700 From: Tabor Kelly X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Personal Reply-To: Tabor Kelly X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <91166956.20010806210404@dsl-only.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: Re: Internet Connection Sharing and FreeBSD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG didn't quite make it back to the list This is a forwarded message From: Bob Collins To: Tabor Kelly Date: Monday, August 06, 2001, 8:08:19 PM Subject: Internet Connection Sharing and FreeBSD On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 05:40:29PM -0700, Tabor Kelly wrote: > There is a commercial application called Wingate. Windows does not > come with the functionality (until 98se, ME, and 2000). > > On Monday, August 06, 2001, 5:14:47 PM, Javier wrote: > > Does anyone know of a way to network a Windows 95 box and a FreeBSD box so > that they share an internet connection, with Windows 95 being the gateway? I > understand how to with FreeBSD being the gateway, but not the other way > around. Thank you for any help. > > "He who controls the past, controls the future. He who controls the present, > controls the past." ~ George Orwell, "1984" > Other options include WinProxy and Proxy+. I like Proxy+ for your situation because it is free to use for 3 machines or less, and it is very easy to configure and make work. You will then require some firewalling as well. Try Tiny firewall, for more free stuff. -Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message