Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:09:57 -0400 From: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User PPP Message-ID: <37695615.9539C063@glue.umd.edu> References: <199906171803.TAA08414@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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Brian Somers wrote: > > > I've gotten User PPP set up on my 3.2-S machine. I have natd running so that I > > can access the "outside world" from my windoze machine (connected by crossover > > ethernet). > > Runnin 'ppp -background' once works fine, but when I disconnect (using kill -1) > > and then reconnect I can't get any packets to go out. I think its a routing > > problem since 'netstat -r' takes about 5 minutes to show the routing tables, but > > the table looks fine once it finally comes up. What am I doing wrong? And what > > is the proper way to disconnect a background ppp process? > > You probably need the -dynamic switch to natd so that it picks up the > IP number change (assuming you've got a dynamic IP). This is > assuming you want to continue doing things the painful way. > > The easy way is to use the -alias switch to ppp and do away with natd > altogether. I can't find anything about the -alias switch for ppp in the handbook and the man page is a little cryptic. In short... I can't get it to work. Help! I disabled the natd/firewall stuff in the kernel and rc.conf, should I have left that in? Where do I specify the aliasing rules for ppp -alias? Is there anything else I need to do? Thanks, Brandon -- bfoz@glue.umd.edu "Lead, follow, or get run over" "In life there are those who steer, and those who push" "I'm not impatient, the world is too slow" "Life is short, so have fun, play hard, and leave a good looking corpse" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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