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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!jaxnet.jaxnet.com!ns2.mainstreet.net!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!thales.nmia.com!gallup.cia-g.com!lithium From: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Multiple machines with the same IP address? Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 17:51:12 -0700 Organization: New Mexico Internet Access Lines: 23 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960311175050.11292D-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> References: <4i0h7e$q67@eplet.mira.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: gallup.cia-g.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4i0h7e$q67@eplet.mira.net.au> The best way would probably to have your ISP route two static IP addresses down your modem. If not, look into "proxy" servers.. On 11 Mar 1996, Graham Menhennitt wrote: > I have two machines at home - one runs FreeBSD 2.1R and one runs Win95. They > are connected together on a two machine LAN. The FreeBSD machine connects to > an ISP who only allows access to the Internet from that one machine. > Sometimes, I want to run Internet apps on the Win95 machine and have the > FreeBSD routine route the packets out to the ISP and hence the rest of the > world. That much works as I see my modem light flicker when the Win95 > machine sends something. But unfortunately, I can never get a reply from the > outside world as the ISP doesn't allow any packets back. Is there some way > that I can get FreeBSD to send the packets to the ISP with its own IP > address and know that reply packets should be passed on to the Win95 > machine?. Has anybody tried anything like this? Does the software exist to do > it? Is it even possible? > > Thanks for any help that anybody can provide, > > Graham > >