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From: christos@deshaw.com (Christos Zoulas)
Subject: Re: Help NetBSD - WinSock 2.0 problem
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Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 18:34:39 GMT
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In article <3qa7in$aue@news.uni-c.dk> tor-imi@inet.uni-c.dk (Torben Christensen) writes:
>Hi all
>
>I am trying hard to get the following to work:
>
>NetBSD on a 486 DX2 50 MHz on a network
>where a small number of PC's are running WinSock 2.0
>and the problem being, that I have not been able to make
>the NetBSD machine work as a router via a PPP link to
>the net.
>
>I can 'see' the request for information transmitted via
>the PPP link, but nothing comes back ???
>
>I am able to telnet and ping from the NetBSD box out on the PPP link
>but not from any of the PC's, so to me that means the the NetBSD is
>not routing ???
>
>ppp_setup is like this
>#! /bin/sh
>chat -v "" "atz" "OK" "atdt45935000" "CONNECT" "\d" "login:"
>"Loginname" "Password:" "Password"
>
>ppp_start is like this:
>#! /bin/sh
>FS=' '
>pppd connect /etc/ppp_setup crtscts defaultroute lock mru 296 modem
>/dev/ttyd0 38400
>
>and a ppp_stop like this
>#! /bin/sh
>for PPP in /var/run/ppp*.pid
>do
>  kill `cat $PPP`
>done
>
>I'm new at this unix setup so please...
>Please help. This is driving me crazy.
>
>

Is your kernel compiled with 'options GATEWAY'?

christos