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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.wildstar.net!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dialup router Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 15:22:26 -0700 Organization: Erol's Internet Service Lines: 35 Message-ID: <322769A2.1622@www.play-hookey.com> References: <32225EAE.41C67EA6@wcubed.net> <32266F75.2781E494@wcubed.net> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Brad Waite wrote: > > Brad Waite wrote: > > > > I've been trying to find an answer for this for about 6 months to no > > avail. How does one set up a FreeBSD machine to be a gateway to the > > 'net via a ppp (tun) connection? The document mentioned in the FAQ > > describes a ppp SERVER, not a ppp client. Thanks in advance for any > > help. > > 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. > > Brad Waite > You should still read the Handbook and the example files in /etc/ppp concerning iijppp. Without a local subnet, you'll want your FreeBSD machine to do address translation (NAT), not to be a basic gateway. If you are planning to keep your PPP connection up permanently, you might want to consider pppd instead of iijppp. Either way, the NAT requirements must be handled for your needs. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |