Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 07:47:32 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd problem with ppp -alias ... Message-ID: <199804290647.HAA20662@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Apr 1998 17:42:49 -0300." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980428173911.2113G-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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> Morning...
>
> I just setup an 'internal, at home' network of two machines,
> hooked together with a single 10baseT ethernet cable, no hub. Machine A
> (with modem) is configured as 192.168.0.1, Machine B is 192.168.0.2.
>
> Now, if I try to telnet from Machine B to A, with no default route
> set, it works fine. As soon as I set a default route for machine B to
> point at Machine A, it no longer works.
>
> *If* I startup 'ppp -auto -alias <dialup server>', the routing
> works fine *but* I'd prefer not to have to keep the connection up 24/7...
>
> I've gone over everything I can think of, but can't find anything
> obviously wrong...when everything is up, I can telnet to remote hosts from
> the 'hidden' machine, so everything appears to be fine...
>
> Both machines are running 3.0, one SNAP, the other about a month
> old, if that means anything...?
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide...
Your local machine names/IPs aren't resolving. You should probably
set up a local dns that primaries for your LAN and specifies your
ISPs DNSs as forwards.
> Marc G. Fournier
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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