From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 21 22:34:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0213015896 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:34:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA01905; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:48:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:48:11 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Ciskid@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 Ciskid@aol.com wrote: > > > I have two computers one FreeBSD2.2.7 and win98 linked with a cross over > cable I assigned each box a private IP and am going to use windows box as a > proxy to the internet. The BSD box will ping the IPs 192.168.0.1 <= windows > box and 192.168.0.2 BSD box i setup /etc/hosts to have each IP in it like this > 192.168.0.1 www > 192.168.0.2 Technode > The one thing that i cant do is ping the host names I also have setup the > default route any suggestions? You have it backwards, unless I've missed something special windows 98 will NOT allow Network Address Translation. You may want to use the FreeBSD box as an NAT box with your '98 machine behind it. As far as i know, you need special software to run '98 as a router, while FreeBSD comes bundled with such software. On your freebsd box, check out: "man natd" "man ppp" (look for the -alias flag) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message