From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 09:33:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA19095 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 09:33:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from hudsucker.gamespot.com (hudsucker.gamespot.com [206.169.18.74]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA19090 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 09:33:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jsd@localhost) by hudsucker.gamespot.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) id JAA17247 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 09:33:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.0 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 09:30:36 -0800 (PST) Organization: SpotMedia Communications From: Jon Drukman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: using FreeBSD as a router Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk i need to wire two offices together via PPP. i've got two FreeBSD boxes. both are set up with options GATEWAY and are running routed -s -g. traffic from the outside world in gets routed properly. traffic from inside won't come out though. if i'm on the freebsd box which is dialed out, i can telnet anywhere in the free world. no sweat. but if i hook a win95 laptop up to the LAN with that freebsd box, that freebsd box won't forward packets out. so it seems like one machine is actually forwarding packets and the other one isn't, even though i've configured them identically. is there any way to find out why the broken one isn't forwarding? -- Jon Drukman / jsd@gamespot.com