From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 10 20:48:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA22861 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 20:48:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iconz.co.nz (iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA22851 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 20:48:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by iconz.co.nz (8.6.12/8.6.10) with ESMTP id PAA03650; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 15:48:03 +1200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id PAA25142; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 15:47:59 +1200 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA18318; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 15:35:02 +1200 (NZST) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA09084; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 15:35:01 +1200 (NZST) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 15:35:01 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Antonio Bemfica cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD box as a router using ppp In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Antonio Bemfica wrote: > I have a FreeBSD box at home which connects via user ppp to the net. It > all works fine, I can reach and be reached. I use a fixed IP for dialing > out. > > I also have a Win95 machine at home, and I would like to have it use the > FreeBSD box to access the net. Assuming you're running the latest version of ppp, you can try ppp -alias -background isp-entry The rest of your setup looks ok. Check out the manual page of ppp for more info on the -alias option -- Jonathan Chen e-mail : jonc@pinnacle.co.nz Pinnacle Software Ltd Voice : +64.9.415.4460 Auckland, New Zealand Fax : +64.9.415.4250