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. -- Eric Hodel - hodeleri@seattleu.edu | Customers will come to our Aspiring programmer & FPS minor demi-god. | 'home page' in unbelievable ------------------------------------------/ numbers and find out every- thing we want them to know. --Bill Gates To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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