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#! rnews 1721 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!fonorola!uniserve1!usenet From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FB as PPP server Date: 15 Jul 1995 02:55:25 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 28 Distribution: usa Message-ID: <3u7amt$npr@enigma.uniserve.com> References: <3tmp9h$ktc@umcc.umcc.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc.sdf.com Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.2 In article <3tmp9h$ktc@umcc.umcc.umich.edu>, bgrant@umcc.umcc.umich.edu says... >I have a FB system connected to a LAN (with a LAN card). Since it also has >a serial port, I would like to dial in from another PC as a PPP user to >access the LAN. To avoid changing routing tables or getting another class C >address, I would like to appear to the LAN as a different host on the same >network. Is it possible to do this, with proxy ARP or some other way? > > LAN <mynet> > +----------------+-------------------+------------------------------+ > | ^ > +-------------------+ remote PC appears to be > + IP = <mynet>.1 + here with addr <mynet>.2 > + + > + PPP: addr = ? + > +-------------------+ > | > to remote PC I've done this for SLIP. You can use the "arp" command to manually add an entry to your ARP table for another IP address which will be used by the remotly connected host. Then you need to "ifconfig" the p2p link with correct IP addresses. Some details will be different whether you use pppd or ppp. Tom