The NT machine is the gateway.

Thanks for your help.  I try your advice and see how it works.

Jim Nelson

Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, James T. Nelson wrote:
> 
> > I have been trying to telnet through a WinNT server to the outside with no
> > luck from NetBSD 1.4. I need to do this to get at the pkgsrc's.  How does one
> > do this?
> >
> > I can ping machines on the LAN, but can not ping to the outside via the NT
> > server, which is connected to an ISP.
> 
> I'm not sure I follow you. The NT server is the gateway? Does it pass
> icmp for the other machines on the LAN? Presumably, it passes ftp, at
> least.
> 
> On the NetBSD machine, "route add default nt-ip-addr". You also need
> to put your nameservers in "/etc/resolv.conf", one line per
> nameserver, vis "nameserver nameserver-ip-addr". If the Wintendo
> machines use a proxy for ftp, set "ftp_proxy" in the environment:
> something like "export ftp_proxy=http://www.proxy.com" for Bourne
> shell, "setenv ftp_proxy http://www.proxy.com" for csh.
> 
> If that works, you can make the setup more permanent by setting the
> gateway in /etc/rc.conf, and the proxies in
> {~/.profile,~/.cshrc,~/.bashrc}. Lotsa luck!