From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 29 01:42:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA27376 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 01:42:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA27354 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 01:42:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA20662; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 07:47:32 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199804290647.HAA20662@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: The Hermit Hacker cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd problem with ppp -alias ... In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Apr 1998 17:42:49 -0300." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 07:47:32 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 ', 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 -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message