Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:02:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Peter Haight <psh1@cornell.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting up two way PPP connection. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808112359230.28795-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199808100103.SAA00751@wartch.sapros.com>
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On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Peter Haight wrote: > > I've got a FreeBSD box that I use as a router for a small house network. I > recently got some IP addresses and my new ISP calls my ISDN TA whenever > there are packets for my network. > > I have two questions. > > 1. How do I setup this kind of two way ppp connection where it dials into > the ISP when I have an outgoing packet and it accepts calls from my ISP when > there is an incoming packet? Your ISP will do that? That usually costs them mega-bucks. > 2. The ISP has given me an 8 IP subnet. Their router routes all packets to > one address which is the other end of the PPP line. In order to do this I > had to use two IP addresses for my router. One was the IP address on the > local lan and the other is the one it gets from the PPP line. Is there some > way to avoid this? Can I set the PPP link up as some kind of bridge instead? No, ppp doesn't support bridging. You'll have to work it so both ends get the same IP regardless. Then you can config pppd to give the remote the IP it normally gets when you dial in. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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