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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP server configurations !!!
Date: 4 Dec 1995 22:40:00 GMT
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jarekb@ire.pw.edu.pl (Jaroslaw Bazydlo) writes:

> The funny thing is i did it using both ways:
> 
> 1. Compiled the kernel source with options GATEWAY.
> 2. set GATEWAY=YES in /etc/sysconfig (which execcutes sysctl in the fact).

(they are redundant)
> 
> It still does not work. Maybe it is something wrong with my routing table
> bu as far as i know pppd should set it up by itself. Is that true ?

Are your trying to put the local and remote peer's addresses into the
same subnet?  This would require proxy ARP.  (Which was broken in
2.0.5.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)