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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SLIP woes... or do I just not know what I am doing :-) Date: 25 Sep 1995 02:04:53 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4452o5$99r@reason.cdrom.com> References: <43p6ut$dp6@outer.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: joshk@tanisys.com X-URL: news:43p6ut$dp6@outer.net joshk@tanisys.com (Josh Karnes) wrote: > everything works great as long as I only want to communicate with the > server I am connected to... like viewing my web page, sending myself mail, > etc... also, DNS does not work, can't ping anyone except the SLIP server. This sounds a lot like one or two things are happening (check for both): 1. The Mac has not configured itself properly so that the FreeBSD box is set as the default gateway. 2. The FreeBSD gateway hasn't been configured as one. See the man page for sysctl and in particular the setting of the `net.inet.ip.forwarding' variable. It should be set to 1. > The buddy says that I need a separate subnet for the SLIP hosts, and that > is the only way to make the ethernet card in the SLIP server communicate Naw. Just so long as the Mac has a valid IP address, it should be able to have its packets forwarded by the FreeBSD machine. -- Jordan