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Date:      Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:10:13 -0700
From:      Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu>
To:        river <river@theriver.nu>
Cc:        "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Seting up this machine as a gateway
Message-ID:  <37DED5D4.82D455E4@seattleu.edu>
References:  <21DC5E98AE1FD311B1290020AFDB6C6E63CE@cx288885-b.okcs1.ok.home.com>

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river wrote:
> 
> I have looked over the docs and wanted to make sure that I could do this:
> 
> I have a BSD box setup and connected to the internet directly via ethernet.
> On this same lan I have my internal network 10.x.x.x, and already have a
> proxy server for my win NT side.  But I have more than 1 BSD machine (1
> connected to the internet, and 1 on my internal net) and wanted the internal
> one to be able to connect to the internet through the directly connected
> one.  Mainly for ftp and telnet....although I might want to move other ports
> through in the future.
> 
> Do I need to setup the directly connected BSD box with 2 IP's bound to the
> same NIC (external and internal networks) and set the gateway_enable="YES" ?
> and go from there ?

That is part of it.

> If there is a web page or docs I am overlooking for this, please point me in
> that direction and I will go and look them over for setup....

You'll also need to run natd(8) to get the internal machine on the
external net.  The man page gives a step by step, but it is not very
verbose.  If you can give the internal machine a real IP address you
won't need to run natd.

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