From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 23 05:41:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA22798 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 05:41:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from BIGFUN.vwcom.com (BIGFUN.vwcom.com [151.197.101.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA22788 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 05:41:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmc@WillsCreek.COM) Received: from WillsCreek.COM (gw.willscreek.com [151.197.101.46]) by BIGFUN.vwcom.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA20723 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 08:36:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from current.willscreek.com (current.willscreek.com [172.16.87.1]) by WillsCreek.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA16595 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 08:41:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bmc@localhost) by current.willscreek.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA01887; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 08:41:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 08:41:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199710231241.IAA01887@current.willscreek.com> From: Brian Clapper MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proxy service help In-Reply-To: <71486306@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.23 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Steve W. Heistand wrote: > Hi, > > My current setup is a freebsd box with a network connection servering > a couple of windows machines on an internal private network. > All my normal internet services are working just fine through the freebsd > machine but now I have the need to play DIABLO on the inside windows machines. > > Thus there is also the need to have a udp connection from the inside cow box > (gateway running windows) to the outside world. Any thoughts on how I can > get this to actually work? A couple of guys (including the ever-watchful Brian Somers) have already mentioned `ppp -alias'. If your link to the Internet is not PPP, then `natd' (the network address translation daemon) is your best bet. ----- Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/ Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. -- E. G. Leter