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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!iol!gate.ohs.ie!usenet From: steveo@iol.ie (Steve O'Hara-Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP troubles Date: 15 Mar 1996 09:54:34 GMT Organization: Steve O'Hara-Smith Lines: 22 Sender: root@iol.ie (Steve O'Hara-Smith) Message-ID: <4ibeoq$td@gate.ohs.ie> References: <1996Mar15.060521.6471@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-121.dublin.iol.ie X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.5 In article <1996Mar15.060521.6471@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, mh001b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Matthew W. Hacker) writes: > > >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 >link, nothing on the network at large. I was under the impression that >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. > On the remote machine you need to add a default route when the PPP link comes up (assuming the whole world - or at least as much of it as exists is through the PPP link). The easiest way of doing it is to add defaultroute to the pppd parameters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve O'Hara-Smith E-Mail: steveo@iol.ie