From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 26 11:09:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09961 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:09:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA09929 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:08:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA16316; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 19:08:08 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA02716; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 15:20:43 GMT (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199810261520.PAA02716@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Paul cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp routing problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:02:39 +0930." <362FDCB7.471B4ABA@dove.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 15:20:43 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, > > I am not sure whether this is the correct address to send my problem to. > > I have just installed FreeBSD 2.2.6 on a clients PC and everything > appears to be working ok except for the dialup side of things. The > client is an ISP. They have 2 pc's on the local network which have no > problems sending data out of the network. The problems occur when any a > user dials in. We are running Mgetty 1.1.6 with AutoPPP enabled. The > clients get authenticated successfully and get an IP address assigned to > them upon logging in. They are able to retreive data off the local > network but unlike the networked PC's are unable to get out. > > Could you please tell me what I have missed. This is very frustrating.. Your clients default router probably doesn't know how to route back to the ppp peer. Normally, this is resolved by having ppp assign IP numbers from the LAN and using ``enable proxy'' in ppp.conf. Make sure the ppp machine has IP forwarding switched on too. > Regards, > > Paul Thornton. -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message