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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Setup as Gateway Date: 16 Jul 1996 11:18:49 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4sftqp$meq@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4serus$67i@zeus.crosslink.net> 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E moverman@crosslink.net (Marc Overman) wrote: > I have several computers with largely varying IP addresses that I > would like to have telnet and FTP to each other. If I setup my > FreeBSD box as a gateway and have them use that gateway will they be > able to communicate? If so, how do I setup the gateway? Provide IP alias addresses for all the networks involved (assuming you are using more than one logical network on the same wire). Enable the `gateway' option in /etc/sysconfig. Make all your clients point to the BSD machine as their default route. -- 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. ;-)