From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 30 21:38:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pokey.local.net (tcs7-4.arl.netwalk.net [216.69.201.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB8BB15410 for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 21:37:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmutter@netwalk.com) Received: from insomnia.local.net (insomnia.local.net [192.168.2.3]) by pokey.local.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA00269; Mon, 31 May 1999 00:36:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jmutter@insomnia.local.net) Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 00:40:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@netwalk.com To: Ben Stuart Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: natd/ppp problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why are you using 'natd' and 'ppp -alias'? Running ppp with the -alias switch does it's own 'form' of natd. For most situations, you won't need both. On Mon, 31 May 1999, Ben Stuart wrote: :Hello- : I am having a problem that I cannot seem to find any information :about. I have setup my 3.1-RELEASE box as a gateway for my lan. I :followed the directions in the handbook/man pages for setting up PPP, and :it seems to work correctly ( i use the command ppp -background -alias isp :to start ppp). I also did the same for natd, which also is :(kinda) working. The problem is that after running for hours :problem-free, natd and/or ppp will just freeze. I cannot connect to any :remote computers (telnet, ftp, http), nor can anyone connect to me. I :think it may have something to do with my routes getting messed up, :because when i do a "netstat -r" after it freezes, no routes are printed :and I have to ctrl+c to get back to a prompt. There doesnt seem :to be any particular reason that causes this freeze. Hopefully I :explained this somewhat clearly, and I hope someone can help. If you need :anymore information (my ppp.conf, etc) let me know. : :Thanks alot, :Ben Stuart : : : :To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message : : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message