Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 09:46:44 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: "Rich Webster" <RWebster@tns-inc.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbie IP question Message-ID: <19990416214839.ESFI5752963.mta2-rme@wocker> In-Reply-To: <006601be883a$95641f00$2c05fea9@rwebster>
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On 16 Apr 99, at 14:54, Rich Webster wrote: > I have installed a BSD box twice now and it seems to work fine. I can > ping and use IP to do whatever I like from the machine. However I can not > ping it or access it from another machine. I am using a ten net address > with the default class c mask. I notice that if I run netstat -r that > while netstat is running the BSD box is pingable from another machine. I > can ftp to the machine. When netstat -r stops I lose my connection. What > is happening here? This is a fresh install. Do I need to tell the BSD > box who it can trust to respond to? Please e-mail you answer to me at > rwebster@tns-inc.com. Thank you very much in advance. I've been playing > with this for a while and am now pretty frustrated. There a few things you need to do here. 1 - make the FreeBSD box a gateway. 2 - enable ip alaising on the FreeBSD box 3 - make the FreeBSD box your default gateway on your other boxes. To do this you need: see http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/alias.htm I am assuming you are using PPP. If not, then please complain. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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