From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 9 21:37: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB30914C42 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 21:37:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id AAA09139; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 00:38:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199906100438.AAA09139@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: A simple network configuration question. In-Reply-To: from Hans van Reenen at "Jun 10, 99 04:59:50 am" To: H.vanReenen@UCI.KUN.NL (Hans van Reenen) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 00:38:22 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Please keep CCs to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org when replying.] Hans van Reenen wrote, > > Hello Crist, > > I mean in the following situation. > > PC-box: inet 131.174.118.146 > Gateway: inet 131.174.116.7 > > In this example there is no home-lan. Just a point (PC box) to point > (gateway) connection. > > Do you understand the above description ? Not really. The gateway has to be reachable from your PC. If your gateway is not on your LAN, how do you plan on reaching it? Are we talking about PPP between these machines? In that case, I think you still need to be more specific about what you wish to do. I still am not sure what you mean by 'bypassing rc.local' either. For some reason you want to only enable this connection by hand, rather than automatically at startup? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message