From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 4 06:00:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA16759 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 06:00:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA16710 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 05:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snake.hut.fi (snake.hut.fi [193.167.6.99]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id FAA29659 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 05:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [194.100.45.1] ([194.100.45.1]) by snake.hut.fi (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA79686; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 15:57:55 +0300 X-Sender: pera@pop.hut.fi. Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 16:02:08 +0300 To: bogusz@lib.amu.edu.pl, rjk@sparcmill.grauel.com, Stephen.Couchman@imagenet.on.ca From: petri.riihikallio@hut.fi (Petri Riihikallio) Subject: Re: IP forwarding not working [ANSWER] Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The problem was that FreeBSD didn't work as a gateway between ethernet and a PPP link. The reason was that my ISP hadn't configured the rest of my network to their router. The router knew about the link to my PPP interface but nothing else. Their router didn't accept any routing information so routed -s -g did't help. Thanks for your help! Petri -- Petri.Riihikallio@hut.fi