Hello,

I am trying to make my machine a gateway. I have a desktop PC which runs NetBSD
and a Windows 95 Libretto. I would like to set things up so that when the
desktop machine machine dials up it can provide the libretto a means of
accessing the internet via my ethernet.

I have compiled the kernel to have the GATEWAY option and set up the libretto
to point to the desktop as a gateway. But it doesn't work. I am totally stumped.

Could some kind person help me ?

My routing tables look like:

ishtar% netstat -r
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface
default            cs1wr.wr.com.au    UG          4    11139      -  ppp0
localhost          localhost          UH          1     1372      -  lo0
192.168.42         link#1             UC          0        0      -  ne1
ishtar             00:40:33:25:06:51  UHL         0    97207      -  lo0
sharpblue          00:c0:f0:1c:60:88  UHL         0        5      -  ne1
cs1wr.wr.com.au    dialup05.wr.com.au UH          1        0      -  ppp0

sharpblue is the libretto and running tracert on that gets to ishtar
(the desktop), but gets no further. If I ping a host I get:

ishtar% ping proxy.wr.com.au
PING proxy.wr.com.au (203.12.42.24): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 203.12.42.24: icmp_seq=0 ttl=63 time=2935.719 ms
64 bytes from 203.12.42.24: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=1952.220 ms
^C64 bytes from 203.12.42.24: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=1960.783 ms
64 bytes from 203.12.42.24: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=2550.094 ms

----proxy.wr.com.au PING Statistics----
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 1952.220/2349.704/2935.719 ms

Interestingly enough, traceroute doesn't work, even though ping does:

ishtar% traceroute proxy.wr.com.au
traceroute: Warning: Multiple interfaces found; using 192.168.42.1 @ ne1
traceroute to proxy.wr.com.au (203.12.42.24), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  * * *
 2  * * *
...

So I suspect the problem is to do with the multiple interfaces (error above)
which I thought the "default" option in the routing tables above would work
with. traceroute does work if I specify a particular interface. How I do that
from the Win95 box I don't know - should I even have to ?

Thanks.

-- 
Cheers,
david		-- http://www.angelfire.com/wa/hobley