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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!handbag.tecc.co.uk!parody.tecc.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Making a ppp connection with slirp Date: 27 Dec 1995 22:10:12 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD box Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4bsg84$u9@parody.tecc.co.uk> References: <4bqj9t$13s@news.informix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost In article <4bqj9t$13s@news.informix.com>, Andy Hogben <ahogben@informix.com> wrote: > >What I want is... > Home (mini 10.0.2.15) -> ppp -> Work (mirage 158.58.29.28) -> internet I'm afraid I have grave doubts this will work. Your home IP address (10.0.2.15) is one of those reserved for use on private networks which are invisible from the Internet; in fact a standards-conformant router will not forward packets to such an address. (This makes sense, as there could be machines on different networks using the same reserved address and how would you decide which of them should actually get the packets?). In other words, you may be able to send stuff out to the Internet, but you won't get anything back. Actually, there may be some sort of trickery involving the (ab)use of mirage's firewall capabilities to work around the problem, assuming of course that it has any, but this is rather ugly. By far the best solution is to get your home machine a non-reserved IP address. James -- Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'