From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 21 03:51:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA13050 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 03:51:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA13028 Sun, 21 Jan 1996 03:51:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA03809; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 12:51:20 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA02890; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 12:51:19 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id MAA24348; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 12:48:30 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601211148.MAA24348@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Problem with IP forwarding To: scouch@io.org (Stephen Couchman) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 12:48:30 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9601210257.AA02563@mail.fonorola.net> from "Stephen Couchman" at Jan 20, 96 09:57:13 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Stephen Couchman wrote: > > Is there anything else I have to do to get IP forwarding to work, other than > turning setting the kernel parameter via /etc/sysconfig? > > I have two network interfaces (ppp0 using kernel ppp, and an Ethernet card. > If I attach a PC to the ethernet card (using a crossover), the PC cannot see > the ppp connection, or anything past it (i.e. the Internet). Similarly, > anything on the Internet cannot see past the ppp IP. Are you sure the address of the PC is routed from the outside world? The PPP link itself does only establish a host route on the other side, just to your end of the PPP. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)