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From: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple machines with the same IP address?
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 17:51:12 -0700
Organization: New Mexico Internet Access
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The best way would probably to have your ISP route two static IP 
addresses down your modem.  If not, look into "proxy" servers..

On 11 Mar 1996, Graham Menhennitt wrote:

> 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
> 
>