dhcp works but cannot ping internet sites

[W.D.McKinney]

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 09:55, Adam Knauff wrote:
> I haven't been using FreeBSD very long but I decided to use it for a bit of a home project.  
>  
> I want to run my own wireless hotspot out of my house.  This is my setup:
>  The internet connects into my FreeBSD box on ep1 (DHCP works and gets an ip from ISP)(connects fine and works 100%)
>  LAN on tx0 (its a static IP and the DHCP brodcasts properly)
>  WLAN on tx1 (also static IP and also DHCP works correctly as well)
>  
> So step one of my project works correcly but here's the kicker... The FreeBSD box is not properly forwarding packets or acting as a gateway or something.
>  
> I've spent hours on the net and configuring.  I can't get it to work properly.   Any help would be great.  Thanks
>  
> If anyone has got even just 2 nic cards one on the net one with dhcp working correctly please let me know.  I'll send files as needed.
>  
> Thanks in advance for the help
>  
> Adam (WiFi)
> 

If you have some the spending money, get this book, it has instructions
for doing this in FreeBSD.

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/80211security/index.html

Dee

Alaska Wireless Systems