From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 9 22: 4:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from VMS.UCI.KUN.NL (vms.uci.kun.nl [131.174.64.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59FA814EFC for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 22:04:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from H.vanReenen@UCI.KUN.NL) Received: from baserv.uci.kun.nl by VMS.UCI.KUN.NL (PMDF V5.1-10 #8798) with ESMTP id <01JC85YSBF0G009KK4@VMS.UCI.KUN.NL> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 07:04:40 +0200 (MET-DST) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 07:04:39 +0200 (MDT) From: Hans van Reenen Subject: Re: A simple network configuration question. In-reply-to: <199906100438.AAA09139@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I will try explain it clearly. e-net catv enet enet PC-box ------- cable modem ------ com controller ------ gateway ----- 131.174.118.146 131.174.116.7 Between the PC-box and the gateway it is a ethernet connection (no PPP), and the PC-box is NOT a gateway itself (for example a home-lan). I hope it is specific enough to answer this question. Thanks. Hans. On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > [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