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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!europa.clark.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!uwm.edu!hookup!nic.mtl.hookup.net!vertex.tor.hookup.net!nic.wat.hookup.net!loki.tor.hookup.net!noc.tor.hookup.net!not-for-mail From: gschmidt@noc.tor.hookup.net (Greg Schmidt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: IP setup stumper Date: 13 Mar 1997 10:32:26 -0500 Organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Oakville, Ontario, CANADA Message-ID: <5g96ma$tog@noc.tor.hookup.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: noc.tor.hookup.net Lines: 43 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37023 Okay, here's one for you experts. I've got a FreeBSD (2.1.5) system which I want to network to my Win95 box. They've both got SMC network cards, and FreeBSD recognizes it at bootup. Now, this would be easy, but there's more. I want FreeBSD to be able to dial both my ISP (running a UNIX system which gives me a static IP address) and my work (running an NT system which uses DHCP). Oh, and it should also dial out periodically to collect UUCP mail. (I also want to get the Win95 system so that it can connect to both of these places on its own, but that's a question for another group.) My IP address at the ISP is 167.154.x.y (can't remember exactly, but they have a class B, so the last two are what determines the location within their domain) and the machine should be called gschmidt.tor.hookup.net when it's connected there. At work the address is 207.176.140.z (a class C), and the domain is mytec.com (hostname is hostz.mytec.com). The system name for UUCP purposes is trawna.UUCP. Once this is all working, I'll be running some sort of proxy server so that the Win95 system can get out to the Internet, and maybe Samba so that the drives can be shared. I currently have the on demand PPP dialing working to Hookup. The UUCP link is also working just fine. I am mostly wondering what the hosts file and ipconfig should look like, and am also curious about how I should be naming (as in domain name) the systems on my little network. Also, any changes that I might have to make to sendmail.cf so that replies get back (they should not go out addressed as being from user@gschmidt.tor.hookup.net, or else I'll never get replies). Oh, and while I'm at it, if anyone can tell me how to stop sendmail from doing DNS lookups (or whatever it is that causes it to jumpstart the PPP link whenever I send mail), I'd appreciate it. Thanks in advance for any assistance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Schmidt, Software Engineer, Mytec Technogies (http://www.mytec.com/) gschmidt@hookup.net gregs@trawna.UUCP http://www.hookup.net/~gschmidt/