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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Network problem... Date: 10 Dec 1995 16:38:04 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4af2dc$790@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ac0d5$j6f@idefix.eunet.fi> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 mlattu@prog.pp.fi (Marko Lattu) writes: > I have two computers, one FreeBSD and one Windows95 system. > FreeBSD is connected to the Internet via PPP connection. Windows95 system > is connected to the FreeBSD machine via 3Com 509 Ethernet cards. > > Is it possible to use TCP/IP programs in Windows95 (Netscape etc.) > by using PPP connection in FreeBSD and how can I do it? Yes. You have to turn on gatewaying (sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1) and must ensure that the remote side is routing both addresses. > I have only one IP address. No, this is impossible. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)