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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!wrdis02.robins.af.mil!rcp6.elan.af.mil!newshub.nosc.mil!pegasus!richard From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Subject: Re: Network problem... Organization: Pegasus Information Systems Message-ID: <DJEGor.LA9@pegasus.com> References: <4ac0d5$j6f@idefix.eunet.fi> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 02:10:03 GMT Lines: 18 >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? >I have only one IP address. Yes, you can run some stuff that way, like Netscape, by running proxy servers on you BSD machine. Proxies are available for http, gohper, wais, ftp and a few others. A good http server will handle most of these. I've had good results with Cerns httpd. -- Richard Foulk richard@pegasus.com