Newbie Question: Sharing dial-up connection

[atrowe]

Okay, so I live in the middle of nowhere and cable or DSL is not an option. I use a dial-up modem to access the Internet from my main Windows machine. I have a network card in this machine, which is connected through a Linksys router to an older FreeBSD 4.4 machine, which I don't use that often. My problem is, I need to download some packages to the FreeBSD machine, and I need it to be connected to the Internet. The Windows machine is using a cheap winmodem which won't work under FreeBSD. What do I need to do in order to allow the FreeBSD machine to access the Internet through the Windows machine. What type of changes do I need to make to the FreeBSD machine's configuration? Do I need to enable any settings on the Windows (XP Pro) box to allow it to do this? I'm very confused.

 

[Woodchuck2000]

What you really need to do is read the faqs

There are several on connection sharing that answer the question you asked...

 

[atrowe]

I have read the FAQ, and it did not answer my question. I have sucessfully set up the physical connection between the two computers, and I can ping either machine from the other, and telnet into the FreeBSD machine from the Windows machine, so I know the network is set up properly. My problem lies in configuring the Windows XP machine to act as a gateway for the FreeBSD machine. I'm not sure what settings I need to enable in Windows to do this, and I'm not sure what I need to configure in FreeBSD to force the it to route its traffic through the Windows machine.

 

[Doh!]

go to properties for your dun and advanced tab, click on internet sharing.

 

[atrowe]

FYI: I figured out why I couldn't get it to work. Everything seems to be fine now. Apparently when I enabled connection sharing in Windows XP, Windows automatically designated itself as a DHCP server. Since my router was also acting as a DHCP server, this was causing the problem. I turned off the DHCP server in my router and everything seems to be running smoothly.