Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:23:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        notme <notme@lvdi.net>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: how does ppp's routing work?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906221221510.99084-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <376F5695.7CF1613D@lvdi.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, notme wrote:

>     I have just set my FreeBSD box so that it dials
> to my ISP on demand.  I currently have 2 Win*
> computers connected to the FreeBSD box, like
> the following:
> 
> 
> ISP <-----phoneline---> FreeBSD
>                                     _____|_____
>                                     |                   |
>                                 Win #1          Win #2
> 
> I was able to use ICQ and such, but I am just wondering,
> how does this ppp -auto -alias demand work?  Both of
> the machines shares the same IP, (the IP of which FreeBSD
> gets from my ISP) and both of my machines could see
> each other on ICQ (which requires unique IPs) and play
> online network games.

You can't use ICQ behind a NAT firewall due to ICQ's totally twisted
protocol.  If you install socks5, though, you can tell ICQ to use the
socks5 proxy instead and it'll work fine.  

Every machine on a network should have unique IPs.  I'm surprised the
Windows machines didn't cry foul when they saw one another.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | www.freebsd.org



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.10.9906221221510.99084-100000>