Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 16:26:29 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe <freebsd@penguinpowered.org.uk> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to connect laptop and desktop w/NICs Message-ID: <20030413152629.GA886@marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030413121355.GA96192@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20030411121053.GA77709@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3E96CEFE.4030605@potentialtech.com> <20030413121355.GA96192@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 01:13:55PM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > So far, so good. I can ping each machine from the other, and reset these > settings on startup. > > However, the laptop (which I decided to make a client of the desktop, now > that I have a modem for the desktop) cannot ping past the gateway. I have > the default router set to the desktop, but something else must be wrong. > > Do I need to have inetd or natd running explicitly for this to work? Do you have gateway_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf ? If not you need to add this. If you did need to add this, then run (as root) sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 to save having to reboot. You should now be able to ping past the gateway, but you might need to set NAT up as well. For this, just add the -nat flag to your ppp startup command. HTH, -- Wayne Pascoe
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