From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 16 06:58:01 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA24856 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 06:58:01 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA24843 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 06:57:50 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id XAA01086; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 23:40:51 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507161410.XAA01086@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: SLIP: Is this what they mean by Point-to-Point? To: leopapan@interax.net (leo papandreou) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 23:40:50 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "leo papandreou" at Jul 15, 95 02:56:00 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1651 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk leo papandreou stands accused of saying: > For both boxes: > > 205.205.16.1 bart.rur.com bart > 205.205.16.2 lisa.rur.com www.rur.com lisa > 199.202.234.1 interlink.net slip-gateway > 199.202.234.53 G338.257.interlink.net slip-modemIP It looks like your provider has a route to you in place; this is a good start 8) > and for bart they are the same except for: > network_interfaces="de0 lo0" > ifconfig_de0="inet 205.205.16.1 netmask 0xffffff00" > defaultrouter=NO Here's your error; bart should have lisa as a default router. It's trying to arp on the local ethernet for a nonlocal host. > > Both machines boot fine. On lisa I kermit to my provider, suspend > kermit and slattach -a -h -s 115200 /dev/cuaa1 and everything works: Don't suspend kermit, disable DTR hangup on the modem and exit it. > Then i start to play with the route command on bart in an attempt > to give him a default route. To lisa? No. To slip-modemIP? No. To > slip-gateway? No. You should set it to lisa. You should also make sure that IP forwarding is on in lisa's kernel; this may also be a problem. either options GATEWAY in your kernel config, or sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 at boot time. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[