From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 22 0:27: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9961514FCB for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:26:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 2254 invoked by alias); 22 Apr 1999 07:24:18 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 2230 invoked by uid 0); 22 Apr 1999 07:24:17 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 22 Apr 1999 07:24:17 -0000 Message-ID: <371ECE8E.C4FD5501@uswest.net> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:23:58 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Ciskid@aol.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network problems References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > 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) The FreeBSD box as the gateway is the only option. Windows 98 is specifically designed without serving capabilties. You can, in theory, purchase third party software to do firewalling and proxy, but the OS itself just isn't meant for it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message