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To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: Error message generated by pppd
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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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