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Date:      Wed, 13 May 1998 15:56:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mark Szlaga <mszlaga@umdsun2.umd.umich.edu>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jenkins.mike@epamail.epa.gov
Subject:   Re: Ethernet -> natd -> Dynamic-IP dialup (solved)
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.96.980513154516.19168B-100000@umdsun2.umd.umich.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980509144610.5333B-100000@current1.whistle.com>

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On Sat, 9 May 1998, Julian Elischer wrote:

> One think not mentionned..
> the user-mode ppp daemon has a natd built-din
> I would suggest you use this instead..
> I think it's option -alias
> 
Thanks to everyone that responded.  I got it up and running within a few
hours of your mail.  And I am _*VERY*_ happy with the performance and 
flexability of the FreeBSD networking and ppp program.

Only two other questions.  IIRC there was a way to have pppd under linux to 
do a keepalive.  Is this possible for ppp?  As I want to keep a permanent
connection as much as possible, with the least amount of extra programs 
being run (I had a keepup program written to dial and maintain the link in
linux, but had many problems...).

Second, I read the "academic" section of the ppp primer and it set up a 
working DNS system.  This works nicely and I have no problems... for the 
local machine (eg. 127.0.0.1).  The problem is that it complains that
192.168.1.1 does not have a valid DNS entry, but it works.  using
nameserver 127.0.0.1
in /etc/resolv.conf works fine.  using server 192.168.1.1 in nslookup works
beautifully, but 
nameserver 192.168.1.1 
fails.  

Thanks again and keep up the good work!

Mark Szlaga    mszlaga@umd.umich.edu    http://www.umd.umich.edu/~mszlaga/
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