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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: LAN with a BSD(PPP) gateway
Date: 23 Oct 1996 16:42:28 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable Ken Bigelow
wrote on 15 Oct (in article <3263ECE7.337D@www.play-hookey.com>):
=I have only two IP connections to my box: a net card (lnc0) and the
=modem. For my purposes, I gave them the same IP address (not necessary,
=but my choice here).
Oops, I am afraid this is neccessary ;( I have this kind of setup
working perfectly at home -- ISP assigned me a 4bit subnet. But
at work, my employer has a LAN with private IP-addresses and I am
yet to succeed makeing the FreeBSD box with ethernet card and modem
a router -- modem and card have totally different IP-addresses.
=is the script that gets executed when the ip connection is lost. In my
=case, it shuts down any existing connection and then forces a redial.
You do not really need to shut down your existing connections --
if you get the same IP adress every time you redial most of your
connections would just resume working (like pulling and returning
the ethernet plug back).
-mi
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