how to auto connect to freebsd

[David Banning]

My win boxes are using freebsd as a gateway to the internet
through a hub. I have to set the ip address for each machine
and setup the gateway address in each winbox.

They do not find the gateway address automatically.
I have been doing it this way for years. I am just wondering if it is
possible to have the win boxes auto detect the gateway address and
agree with freebsd what each win IP address will be automatically
as is done with a router-switch.


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