Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 11:19:29 +0800 (SGT) From: Sin Key Teck <ktsin@cc621.ntu.ac.sg> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP and broadcasts Message-ID: <199708190319.LAA01682@cc621.ntu.ac.sg> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970813235958.2059O-100000@localhost> from Doug White at "Aug 14, 97 00:00:47 am"
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> 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. I'm using pppd and proxyarp, and unicast packets work fine. What I really want is to make the PPP hub (router??) forwarding broadcast IP packets so that things like NetBIOS could work properly. kt > > 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 > >
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