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From: brendt@dip1.ee.uct.ac.za (Brendt Wohlberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FreeBSD: SLIP and router
Date: 30 Jan 1995 07:03:21 GMT
Organization: University of Cape Town
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I'd like to set up a network of machines (UNIX/Windows/whatever) on a
local network to have simultaneous Internet access via a single SLIP
connection. Is it possible to use a FreeBSD machine (connected to the
Internet by SLIP) as a router for the local network? If so, are there
any particular complications involved, or is it a matter of setting up
the SLIP connection and compiling the router options into the kernel?
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|Brendt Wohlberg                       |
|Department of Electrical Engineering  |
|University of Cape Town               |
|e-mail: brendt@dip1.ee.uct.ac.za      |       
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