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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news.cais.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to connect FreeBSD to Windows NT gateway Date: Sat, 03 Aug 1996 21:01:21 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 34 Message-ID: <32042091.4176@www.play-hookey.com> References: <31FF9BD1.7AFD@compuserve.com> <4u05fp$po9@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu> <4u0fdb$o5o@news.hal-pc.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Jeff Hupp wrote: > > In article <4u05fp$po9@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>, > mstachow@athena.mit.edu (Maciej Stachowiak) writes: > >In article <31FF9BD1.7AFD@compuserve.com>, Berend de Boer <100120.3121@compuserve.com> writes: > >|> Anyone know how to make FreeBSD recognize that my > >|> Windows NT machine is a gateway to the internet? > > > >You'd probably be better off using the FreeBSD machine for the gateway. > > > > No probably about it, you would. > > Try traceroute. Look for the last responding host. That will give > you a clue as to where the problem is. > While I agree that FreeBSD would/does make a better gateway, NT will do it. I now have that situation at work, schlocky as I consider NT to be. As long as you set your default_router in /etc/sysconfig to the IP address of the NT machine, and the network lets you specify a static IP address for your BSD machine, it will work. Unfortunately, the NT machine can be set to do address assignments by DHCP. If this is the case, you may have problems. I haven't found enough info as yet about DHCP for FreeBSD to be able to arrange that on my system. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |