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From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dialup router
Date: 30 Aug 1996 15:44:30 +0100
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Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> writes:

> Brad Waite <brad@wcubed.net> writes:
> 
> > I guess I should have explained the situation better.  I want to set up
> > my BSD box to be the gateway to the internet for the other machine on my
> > network.  If I set up IP forwarding and the BSD as the gateway for the
> > SGI, ping packets go OUT, but none come back.  I'm assuming it's because
> > the remote ppp router doesn't know how to route the packets to an IP on
> > an unknown subnet.  I have only dynamic IP - no class C, so I want the
> > BSD machine to handle all the routing.  Thanks.
> > 
> 
> Umm and then an X server to run the applications on. What are you
> planning to do with these applications?

I guess you've probably realised this wasn't in reference to this
thread :-) 

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