From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 18 20:01:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA23463 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 20:01:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA23454 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 20:01:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA05075; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 00:57:46 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199711190057.AAA05075@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: sdginn@CCGATE.HAC.COM cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gateway over Dynamic IP address In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Nov 1997 14:58:28 PST." <9710188798.AA879890993@CCGATE.HAC.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 00:57:46 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Try using the "alias port" command to redirect traffic from outside. You'll need to determine what ports are actually being used by trial and error. You may also want to just "alias address" everything to your internal machine..... That's about as transparent as it gets. If the packets contain IP addresses, you're sunk (I suspect they don't). > Hello I am running FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE and have ip forwarding > enabled and GATEWAY=YES in the /etc/sysconfig and my gateway seems to > be working fine. I have 3 computers total on my network, The FreeBSD > machine which is connected to the modem and 2 Windows 95 Machines and > the windows 95 machines seem to work fine on IRC, WWW, FTP. But just > the other day i attempted to play Quake on a server of my friends and > it said it couldn't find it.. But yet everyone i knew said it was > there. And another thing is that DCC Chatting cannot be initiated by > ME in IRC. So the question is, Can i some how enable and alias or is > there a 3rd Party program that will do a completely flawless gateway? > Or do i have to have another IP address assigned to my other machines. > That really isn't an option, i have already asked my ISP if i could > get some static ip's but cannot. So that cant be a solution so I'm > hoping there is another way to get this to work. I would appreciate > any help you guys could give me. > > Sincerely, > Scott Ginn > -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....