From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 22 12:23:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B23AE15534 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:23:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA42767; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:23:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:23:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: notme Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: how does ppp's routing work? In-Reply-To: <376F5695.7CF1613D@lvdi.net> 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 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