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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!uucp.primenet.com!news.typo.org!web From: BOFH <web@typo.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Routing problem with BSD Date: 30 Jul 1996 08:09:55 GMT Organization: typo.org Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4tkg0j$2mb@typo.org> References: <4tkbds$62k@quasar.dimensional.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.primenet.com Monachus Silentium <monachus@dimensional.com> wrote: : Have a P150 running FreeBSD 2.1. connected to it is a subnet of machines : running Win95 or Linux. : BSD box on ethernet: 206.27.146.33 : BSD box on ppp0: 206.27.158.30 : other machines have their default gateway set to the eth IP, and when pppd : has me conneceted to the net, there is no traffic past ppp0 IP from one of : the client machines. the BSD box does all the routing fine for itself, : but not for the clients. : i've tried changing the gateway to ppp0 IP, but it still fails, and i lose : connectivity between machines if i'm not connected with pppd. i've tried : adding a route between the two, but it still fails. : thoughts?? Bets are your system doesn't know its supposed to be routing at all. Try this: sysctl -m net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 -Wayne