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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!decwrl!olivea!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!ieunet!dec4ie.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: slIP host *problems* 386BSD In-Reply-To: jonc@status.gen.nz's message of 23 Sep 93 19: 08:22 GMT Message-ID: <JKH.93Sep25031810@whisker.lotus.ie> Sender: usenet@ieunet.ie (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie Organization: Lotus Development Ireland References: <693265.68902.11156@status.gen.nz> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 03:18:10 GMT Lines: 33 >When I set up a slip.login for a remote site they are able to login and >connect to this site [202.14.100.1] with no problem. However they are >unable to connect to any other site out side this box [202.14.100.1]. That makes sense. Your link with him is point-to-point, all the other site knows is that to get to 202.14.100.1, it has to talk over the slip device. It doesn't know about any other sites that you talk to, however, and equally importantly, none of the other hosts on your side of the "gateway" know that they need to go through you to get to him! Now I use SLIP to talk to an Annex box which then routes me out onto the internet, and this is fairly easy: I simply add a default route that points to the far end of the slip connection (the "remote" address). If you want your slip guy to be able to use you as a gateway, it's probably going to be a little bit more complex, with you adding and advertising routes for him (/etc/routed running on all the hosts in question is one way of doing this), and him using you as his default route. You may also need to reconfigure your kernel with options GATEWAY - I can't really say for sure since I've never actually tried to make a gateway out of my own box. Perhaps someone here who is will pipe up. I'm also not running 386BSD, but FreeBSD - however, you should be able to achieve similar results unless 386BSD is broken for any of the above (we've fixed so many bugs it's hard to remember!). Jordan -- (Jordan K. Hubbard) jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie I do not speak for Lotus, nor am I even a Lotus employee. I am an independent contractor.