Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 07:51:30 -0700 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Jason Lewis <jlewis@cc.weber.edu> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: ppp Message-ID: <199910251451.HAA12679@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Jason Lewis <jlewis@cc.weber.edu> of "Sun, 24 Oct 1999 18:07:19 MDT." <Pine.WNT.3.96.991024180340.-512089E-100000@offcampus.weber.edu>
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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.
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