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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!werple.net.au!gfm From: gfm@werple.net.au (Graham Menhennitt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Multiple machines with the same IP address? Date: 11 Mar 1996 06:29:02 GMT Organization: Werple Internet, Melbourne Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4i0h7e$q67@eplet.mira.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: werplez.mira.net.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I have two machines at home - one runs FreeBSD 2.1R and one runs Win95. They are connected together on a two machine LAN. The FreeBSD machine connects to an ISP who only allows access to the Internet from that one machine. Sometimes, I want to run Internet apps on the Win95 machine and have the FreeBSD routine route the packets out to the ISP and hence the rest of the world. That much works as I see my modem light flicker when the Win95 machine sends something. But unfortunately, I can never get a reply from the outside world as the ISP doesn't allow any packets back. Is there some way that I can get FreeBSD to send the packets to the ISP with its own IP address and know that reply packets should be passed on to the Win95 machine?. Has anybody tried anything like this? Does the software exist to do it? Is it even possible? Thanks for any help that anybody can provide, Graham