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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newsrelay.netins.net!news.dacom.co.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!ringer.cs.utsa.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!shemesh.tis.com!mark From: mark@hilo.trusted.com () Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP troubles Date: 18 Mar 1996 02:25:47 GMT Organization: Trusted Information Systems Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4iihjb$l3p@shemesh.tis.com> References: <1996Mar15.060521.6471@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: relay.tis.com In article <1996Mar15.060521.6471@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, Matthew W. Hacker <mh001b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu> wrote: >I'm having a tiny problem with PPP. Everything looks like it's working, >but the remote machine can only see the machine at the other end of the >proxyarp was sufficent to make things be happy. I am much confused. >I even checked a networked machine's arp tables and it had an entry for >the remote machine with the hardware ethernet address of the local machine. >Seems right, but it doesn't work. proxy arp will make machines able to send you packets, but you need to be able to send them packets as well. >The remote machine is my 486 laptop, the server is a Sun3/60 >(although I had this same trouble with my roomates linux box as >the server...) My first guess is you don't have a route through the ppp link. You probably want something like route add default 1.2.3.4 where 1.2.3.4 is replaced with the IP address of your ppp link on your laptop. You might also try the "defaultroute" arg to pppd to make it automatically add one. I haven't really used this feature because I maintain a permanent default route through the ppp link and other routes through my home network.