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Date:      Wed, 09 Dec 1998 16:17:22 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Error message generated by pppd
Message-ID:  <4.1.19981209161541.067e3b50@mail.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <19981209222041.N15330@follo.net>
References:  <4.1.19981208142548.06cb83f0@mail.lariat.org> <4.1.19981208142548.06cb83f0@mail.lariat.org>

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Without routed, the system does not seem to route packets to or 
from the hosts that are attached via PPP. At least I can't
ping them. I'd actually LOVE to scuttle routed if I could,
but I need to know how to make things work without it.

--Brett

At 10:20 PM 12/9/98 +0100, Eivind Eklund wrote:
 
>On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 02:28:40PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
>> I'm running a small system that uses pppd to field incoming calls and
>> connect callers to the Net. It's running routed, and IP forwarding is
>                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Is there any reason for this?  Unless you know a very explicit reason,
>you shouldn't do that.  These messages are due to routed not being set
>up for being a gateway, just a client, I think - but normally you
>should just disable routed and everything should be fine.
>
>Eivind.
>


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