share internet with win xp

[Peter Risdon]

Hanspeter Roth wrote:

>  On Jan 16 at 15:38, Carvalho Paulo spoke:
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>>    I do not want to change the connetion to the
>>internet to the freebsd box. I like to leave it in the
>>winxp box.
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>This would require winxp to route. Is winxp able to route? FreeBSD
>is.
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Yes. I'd use the FreeBSD machine as the gateway, but you can also use xp 
- this is in fact an xp question. But to be helpful: open the network 
and internet connections control panel on the xp machine, right click 
the dial-up networking account you use, choose "properties", select the 
tab marked "sharing" and enable internet sharing, and dial-on-demand if 
you wish. Your FreeBSD machine should be set to use dhcp for the network 
card. It'll work fine. If both machines have network cards, connect them 
via a hub or switch and use standard RJ45 cables, or plug them into each 
other directly with a crossover ethernet cable. A normal ethernet cable 
will not work. Reboot the FreeBSD machine, and it will get an address in 
the range 192.168.1.0/24 from the xp machine. It will be able to access 
the internet via the xp machine.

PWR.