From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 2 15:00:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0214B16A4BF for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 15:00:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-da-2.dns-solutions.net (mail-da-2.dns-solutions.net [69.12.112.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B051B43FEA for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 15:00:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@vcommunities.net) Received: (qmail 29652 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2003 22:00:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO equilibrium) (mvondung@vcommunities.net@62.158.60.159) by mail-da-2.dns-solutions.net - 62.158.60.159 with SMTP; 2 Sep 2003 22:00:39 -0000 From: "Michael Vondung" To: , Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 00:00:36 +0200 Message-ID: <000a01c3719d$a644d980$0200a8c0@equilibrium> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: <200309020802.34051.lists@rhavenn.net> Subject: RE: PPP, LAN and Newbie Frustration. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 22:00:44 -0000 Henrik wrote: > Not a lot of detailed help..sorry...I haven't setup a PPP > connection >in a LONG time. The good news is that in a year I'll relocate to an area where ADSL is available. Until then I'm stuck in a beautiful but = telecommunication-wise terribly medieval area. I received an e-mail from another list member, and with both his and = your thoughts I had enough pointers to read up more on the relevant topics. = The most important resource was the "FreeBSD Unleashed" book that came with = a very nice "for dummies" type of chapter about networking. ;) Here's a = short summary in case someone else has a similar problem and suffers the same = lack of knowledge as I did: - Learned that ppp_enable=3D"YES" in rc.conf results in FreeBSD = establishing a PPP connection at boot time. Unless otherwise configured in rc.conf, = it'll be in "auto mode" (connection on demand). If not specified, it will use = the "papchap" profile. ppp_profile=3Dxxxx will cause it to use the xxxx = profile. It also uses the -nat option by default. - Went to sysinstall and configured my ethernet card manually this time. Managed to fill in the right values, amazingly enough. - Got ahold of my ISPs name servers and put the IP addresses in the resolv.conf. - Figured out how to configure the LAN manually in XP, without the = wizard (right-click on the connection icon, "properties", highlight tcp-ip, "properties" button). Put in the appropriate IP addresses, and that was that. I also had to change the Internet settings to prevent that XP uses = the local ISDN adapter to establish a dial-up connection. - The last step was the biggest obstacle. While the two machines could = ping each other, FreeBSD wouldn't forward the packets for "outside" systems. After some digging around I learned that this is disabled by default. = Adding gateway_enable=3D"YES" to rc.conf fixed this. A small thing, but took = the most time to solve. In short, it works as desired. Broke through the wall, and quite happy = with myself. ;) Cheers, Michael