From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 26 23:12:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA00865 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:12:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au (smmcdialin.ultra.net.au [203.56.101.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA00833 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:12:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from station1.ultra.net.au (green.colour.ultra.net.au [203.20.237.153]) by smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA01223 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 14:55:50 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199709270455.OAA01223@smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Keith Spencer" Organization: St Margaret Marys College To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 16:10:25 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: How to Route to server?? Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all, I have a routing problem, which should be easy to fix! History: I recently installed fbsd 2.2.2 on my system and I chose to nstall a DEC 24010 NIC at install time so my LAN could use this machine as a gateway to the Internet. The LAN pings fine. The LAN can route out using userppp -alias great The win clients access the INternet perfectly as does this freebsd gateway machine. The Ineternet connection is a dynamic IP The gateway NIC and all other machines have IPs from a c class block I own. I am very happy : ^ ) ...It was a very steep learning curve for me. Problem: I have a server with a IP from my c class block (it too is fbsd). It is not on this LAN & it has my mail server on it. Obviously I want my LAN to pop mail from it and access web pages from its httpd. BUT.... I cannot ping the remote server from this gateway or the machines on this gateway LAN. Ping reports that HOST is down (I know it isn't). Possible cause: When I installed fbsd on this gateway, I didn't know what to put in the host & gateway fields of the install.bat programme when I was configuring the de0 DEC ethercard interface. Questions: What is supposed to be in these fields...remember this is a gateway machine but hasn't got a DNS server working on it. How do I make the routing work so I can ping via my ISP to my remote server? Thanks for helping Keith Spencer Teacher...St Margaret Marys College Townsville Australia