Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

Manish Jain <unxfbsdi@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

I am poor at networking and need a little bit of help. My dad has a
Windows 2000 machine with a network card but does not have a connection
to the internet.

When I started writing this, I thought that system had been abandoned
already, but it appears Microsoft will offer a measure of support
through next year sometime. Do see that the system gets properly
updated before you put it on the net.

My freebsd 6.2 box is connected to the internet and has
2 network cards, rl0 and rl1. rl0 connects to the ISP and rl1 is
directly connected via a long Ethernet cable to the NIC on my dad's
machine. While I can access the internet easily, I want my dad to be
able to connect to the internet with my freebsd box serving as the
gateway. Can anyone please explain to me in easy steps how to accomplish
this ?

The keyword is that you need to set up your machine as a gateway.
There are numerous guides available on how to do that (including the
FreeBSD Handbook (free, online and likely already on your system) my
PF tutorial (http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/) contains more than a few
hints, as do several books available at better bookstores), but I
would recommend that you pick literature that enables you to learn the
basics of TCP/IP as well as the actual commands needed. Looking into
packet filtering for basic protection won't hurt either. With those
keywords in hand, you should be able to dig up something useful.

- Peter
--
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/
"Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
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