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From: ficnar@ecf.toronto.edu (FICNAR FRANK G)
Subject: A Simple Networking Question
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Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 20:14:36 GMT
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Greetings,
I have a really simple question concerning networking. I don't know
much about UNIX and networking (or DOS and networking, for that matter) so
I thought I would throw this question out there (wherever there is) and see if
any responses come back.
I have managed to connect my PC to the terminal server at my school
over a modem line using PPP. An IP number (128.100.254.254) is assigned to
me and the IP number of the terminal server (128.100.8.27) is also available
to me. I mean available in the sense that I can PING both these addresses and
it works. If I try to PING any other machine in the University, it just sort
of sits there and sends packets out but never gets any back. It is as if it
cannot connect to any other machine.
Well, with my limited knowledge, I concluded that there must be some
sort of routing function that is not happening here. I know there must be some
gateway to the outside would from this terminal server (I think it might be
128.100.8.14) but I don't know how to get my machine to route through that
thing.
How can I fix this situation, if at all? I can provide more
information if necessary. I have defaultroute set in my ecf/ppp/options file,
if that is any help.
MANY MANY thanks!
Frank
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