From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 14 00:01:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA29809 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:01:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA29794 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:00:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA02214; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:00:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:00:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Sin Key Teck cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP and broadcasts In-Reply-To: <199708120221.KAA02527@cc621.ntu.ac.sg> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Sin Key Teck wrote: > I have two machines running 2.2.2. The first machine (let's called it A) > is connected to a LAN. The second one (B) is attached to A via PPP. A is > also doing proxy arp for B. > > How do I make A forward broadcast packets between B and the LAN? I tried > to turn on the sysctl variable net.inet.ip.directed_broadcast but the > variable does not seem to exist. If you're using iijppp you need to add the -alias flag. If it doesn't like that or you're having problems see http://www.freebsd.org/~brian for an upgrae. If you're using pppd you need to add 'proxyarp' to your config file. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo