From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 16 14:49:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AF2E159CB for ; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 14:49:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990416214839.ESFI5752963.mta2-rme@wocker>; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 09:48:39 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: "Rich Webster" Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 09:46:44 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: newbie IP question Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <006601be883a$95641f00$2c05fea9@rwebster> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990416214839.ESFI5752963.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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