Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 00:00:36 +0200 From: "Michael Vondung" <michael@vcommunities.net> To: <lists@rhavenn.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: PPP, LAN and Newbie Frustration. Message-ID: <000a01c3719d$a644d980$0200a8c0@equilibrium> In-Reply-To: <200309020802.34051.lists@rhavenn.net>
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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
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