Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 14:29:38 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to connect laptop and desktop w/NICs Message-ID: <20030413132938.GA25131@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20030413121355.GA96192@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20030411121053.GA77709@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3E96CEFE.4030605@potentialtech.com> <20030413121355.GA96192@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 01:13:55PM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
>
> So far, so good. I can ping each machine from the other, and reset these
> settings on startup.
>
> However, the laptop (which I decided to make a client of the desktop, now
> that I have a modem for the desktop) cannot ping past the gateway. I have
> the default router set to the desktop, but something else must be wrong.
>
> Do I need to have inetd or natd running explicitly for this to work?
You don't need inetd(8) --- that's a completely different beast
entirely.
As for natd(8) --- you need some sort of NAT capability, assuming you
don't have an internet netblock assigned to you. However, ppp(8) has
a built in NAT capability, which is actually exactly the same code as
used in natd(8) --- see libalias(3). Try putting:
nat enable yes
into your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, or use '-nat' on the ppp command line.
That should let you send packets from your laptop via your desktop out
to the internet. See ppp(8) for a host of other NAT related options
available in ppp(8).
Cheers,
Matthew
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