From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 26 13:36:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA25915 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 13:36:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from cold.org (cold.org [206.81.134.103]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA25711 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 13:34:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by cold.org (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id OAA23419 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 14:33:49 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 14:33:49 -0700 (MST) From: Brandon Gillespie To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: PPP on modem as router to home network? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ok, situation: I have a FreeBSD 2.1.6 box at home, it auto-dials in I run the FreeBSD box which is the dialup server I allocate all IP addresses etc for our network. I also have a mac connected to the freebsd box at home, through an ethernet card and TCP/IP (altho I'm going to also likely put a appletalk package on it as well). What I want is to allow the mac to route through the PC over the modem and to the internet, so both systems can have internet access at the same time, through the same modem. I can think of a few ways to do this, none of which would be easy or work with the current setup. When my home system dials the work system and fires up it does so with: /usr/sbin/pppd -detach crtscts modem :x.x.x.x Where x.x.x.x is setup as: arp -s 206.81.134.222 00:80:29:e9:1a:58 pub Off of the top of my head, it would seem like the best solution would be to get the pppd to simply handle two ip addresses to the same interface, and handle everything on the client end 'some how'. Unfortunately, I know not how this would be accomplished :) I've also considered having the home unix box proxy to the mac, and run the local network off the 192.168.* addresses. Unfortunately, I do not know how the 'proxy' would work either, as it would seem like the ppp interface from the server would still need two addresses.. -Brandon Gillespie