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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!194.87.0.28!demos!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.he.net!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!not-for-mail From: Paul Newhouse <newhouse~spam@rockhead.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP Win95 Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 00:47:13 -0700 Organization: Rockhead Enterprises Lines: 24 Message-ID: <33BA0781.167EB0E7@rockhead.com> References: <33B9CBB9.485B@cannet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: wanker.nas.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43794 Jeremy M. Harrris wrote: > > I am running FreeBSD 2.2.2 I have configured auto PPP and my connection > is working great. I have a Win95 box on my lan which can telnet into > the BSD box. The only thing the 95 Box cant do is make the BSD box > start a ppp session and forward the packets. > > Example I cant set the BSD box as the gateway and then load Netscape. > It simply wont send the packets through and force the connection. > > I have set gateway=YES in rc.conf. > > Anything else I should be checking? Did you set the W95 box to point at the BSD box as it's gateway? I'm not near a W95 box right now or I'd be able to tell you which (stupid) screen to go to and check. Hopefully, someone out there knows that detail or you can go to one of the M$ networking ng's and ask there. Good luck, Paul -- ISDN is almost like actually being connected to the net.