From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 14:49:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA26204 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:49:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA26198 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:49:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA00639; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:48:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:48:47 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Alastair Rankine cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User PPP Routing yet again. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Alastair Rankine wrote: > Anyway, according to Steve Sims' rather comprehensive Pedantic PPP Primer, > "If the PPP program is started normally then the program will not forward > packets between LAN interface(s) and the dial-out connection. In effect, > only the FreeBSD system is connected to the ISP; other workstations > cannot "share" the same connection." Do you have a URL for this? :) > Ah-HA! This explains the problems I have been experiencing. I have set up > user PPP and get to the point where my FreeBSD box dials, connects, and it > can see the rest of the net. At the same time, the Mac is seeing the > FreeBSD box and nothing else. > > "OK then, I'll just find the secret command line option to turn on routing > to the rest of the world" thinks I, after reading the P-PPP-P. And this is > where I turn to you for help. The P-PPP-P refers to an -alias option, which > neither my software nor my manpages seems to have heard of. I am running > 2.1.5-RELEASE. Upgrade and you will receive the -alias option. Or fetch the patches from the IP Aliasing page, which is at ..... http://www.cypher.net/~black/ipalias.html ? I don't think that's the right URL, we used Mr. Mott's patches. > [As an aside, I don't really want IP aliasing as my ISP has kindly assigned > two static IP addresses to me, but I think I'm barking up the right tree > now...] You do, actually; it's a heck of a lot easier to work esp. over an ethernet. > b) Do I need to get a later release of ppp and/or FreeBSD? That is one solution; the other is to patch ppp yourself. > c) Should I switch to kernel mode ppp, and if so, does it do dial-on-demand? I don't think so. > d) Anyone care to guess how many aborted calls to my ISP I have been > through to get this far? :) Um, 20? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major