From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 23 20:27:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA25774 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 May 1998 20:27:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA25762 for ; Sat, 23 May 1998 20:27:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA00944; Sun, 24 May 1998 12:57:42 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980524125741.C353@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 12:57:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brad Tucker Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: your mail References: <19980524115809.B353@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Brad Tucker on Sat, May 23, 1998 at 08:28:27PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 23 May 1998 at 20:28:27 -0700, Brad Tucker wrote: > On Sun, 24 May 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Sat, 23 May 1998 at 18:55:00 -0700, Brad Tucker wrote: >>> I have a freebsd box at home, and a win 95 box. I have ethernet cards on >>> both boxes. In the freebsd box I have a modem. I would like to use the >>> freebsd box as a gateway for the win95 box. I tried setting the >>> geteway=yes in rc.conf. this didnt seem to work. When i try to ping >>> somewhere thats not at home from the win95 box I get "Request Timed Out." >>> Do I need to set the freebsd box to be a router?? Is there an easy way to >>> tell the freebsd box to take any requests from the device ed0 and give >>> them to the devices tun0? Will someone please push me into the right >>> direction. >> >> It looks like you've done the right thing on the FreeBSD box. Have >> you told the Microsoft box that the FreeBSD box is the gateway? If >> so, you should try using tcpdump to see what the Microsoft box is >> doing, and if the packets go out over the ppp line. > > allright, > microsoft knows the freebsd box is the gateway. I did a tcpdump, and I > got was arp whereis destination ..... and nothing went back to the win 95 > box. I also did a tcpdump on tun0, and there was nothing there. No > packets go out of the tun0 device. Any other ideas? Should I add a route > add line, or a arp comand??? Are you sure your ethernet is configured at the FreeBSD end? Can you ping in either direction? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message