Date: Tue, 10 Dec 96 10:14:26 +0700 From: "Victor A. Sudakov" <victor@vas.tomsk.su> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, softweyr@xmission.com Subject: Re: "talk" does not work. Please help. Message-ID: <AAIMDhoWx0@vas.tomsk.su> References: <199612090318.UAA18804@obie.softweyr.com>
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> > > For example, it will be 10.0.0.1 on the ed0 device (LAN) and > > dynamic IP address on the tun0 device. How do I make sure that > > no packets from the internal network 10.0.0.x should squeeze > > into the Internet? How do I ensure that my local address > > 10.0.0.1 is not visible in the Internet when I am online? Is > > there no kind of routing between interfaces enabled by default? > > Do I have to change anything in /etc/sysconfig? > > Make sure you *didn't* tell your machine to be a router. By default, > the TCP/IP code will not automatically "forward" packets from one > interface to another. Turning on routing in /etc/sysconfig will > enable this capability, which you don't want. Where exactly do I turn routing on and off in /etc/sysconfig? > > It is not my case so I am just curious. As far as I am > > concerned I always prefer to have a domain name of my own, not > > just a mailbox somewhere. Besides, UUCP as a mail transfer > > protocol is still very popular here in Russia. > > > I haven't worked with UUCP since 1991, but it does a remarkably good > job if getting mail and news around when the networking infrastructure > isn't in place but the phone system works. Once upon a time, I owned Here in Russia, UUCP is very popular. There is a very good and popular freeware UUCP client for MS-DOS called UUPC by Ache. A lot of people would not easily give UUCP up because you can have as many mailboxes as you wish, you can add and delete users without asking your provider every time you want to add a user. I value this freedom very much, so do a lot of people here. So most providers, at least here in Tomsk, would by default give you a domain name. > an 8Mhz 286 running System V Release 2 and was a minor UUCP Usenet > routing node, carrying a daily 2.5 Mb news feed over 2400 baud modems. > I like what I have now much better, but UUCP got me on-line *long* > before being on-line was "cool." ;^) I began as a Fidonet point at the time when Internet was exotic in Russia. You would not believe how much have changed here of late. But this is already off topic, sorry ;-) --- Victor A. Sudakov E-mail: victor@vas.tomsk.su Center of Information Technologies FidoNet: 2:5005/49 Tomsk Region Education Department Telephone: +7 3822 224916 Tomsk, Russian Federation Telefax: +7 3822 225912
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