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Subject: Re: ppp 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
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I'm afraid I haven't done any testing on a machine with 8Mb of RAM, 
but if you allocate a reasonable amount of swap there should be no 
problems (apart from speed problems).

> Ok.  I tried this and found out that my router is intermittant.  I
> suspect that I need more ram than 8 Mb.  I could not find anything on how
> much is needed with a router and ppp.  I think I need atleast 32M for the
> box to work with routing.  Any insite on this?
> 
> On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> > > How can one route public IP's over ppp without IP Masquerading?  I tried
> > > enabling forwarding, but it didnot work.  Do I need to use pppd instead of
> > > ppp?
> > 
> > I'd advise using tcpdump (or enabling ppps tcp/ip logging) at each 
> > point of the packets journey to discover what's not forwarding it...
> > 
> > Ppp is functionally the same as pppd in this respect.

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@FreeBSD.org>
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