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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!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.vader.org!news.demon.co.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 Ethernet <-> PPP router help! Date: 7 May 1996 16:50:01 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4mnrf9$15b@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <fsc.831010027@zot.io.org> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Finite Systems Consulting (fsc@zot.io.org) wrote: : I'm supposed to set up a FreeBSD box as a router between a local : Ethernet and an ISP. I think I've done everything right, but when I : try to ping the outside world ping tells me "no rooute to host". : Here's what I've done: : In sysconfig I set the box's IP to x.y.z.97, and netmask to ffffffd0 (it's : a 32-host subnet). : I set the gateway option on. But I do not give a default gateway. : In ppp.config I specify device and speed, and CHAP info. : In the ppp program, I enter "term", then use AT commands to my : BitSURFR to dial the ISP. It connects, enters packet mode, and comes : back to the PPP prompt. Then I say "add 0 0 HISADDR". : At this point I think it should work; but ping (even to the gateway, : i.e. the machine on the other side of the PPP link) fails with "no : route to host". : What have I done wrong? : Thanks, : Paul Reynolds : -- After you do the 'add 0 0 HISADDR', what does 'netstat -nr' say ? What IP numbers are involved ? -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....