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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP: slip conection
Date: 21 Aug 1995 11:55:52 +0200
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Michael Calabrese <michael_calabrese@mk.com> wrote:

>I am currently running FreeBSD 2.0 and I have setup the slip connection.  
>The connection works but I can only talk to the machine I am connected to. 
> I want to be able to talk to the other machines on the network.
>
>I have tried playing with Gated and routed but I don't know exactly what I 
>am doing.

You don't need cannons like gated and routed, you simply need a default
route.  ``route add default <remote-addr> [netmask <remote-netmask>]''.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)