Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:00:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Sin Key Teck <ktsin@acm.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP and broadcasts Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970813235958.2059O-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199708120221.KAA02527@cc621.ntu.ac.sg>
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On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Sin Key Teck wrote: > I have two machines running 2.2.2. The first machine (let's called it A) > is connected to a LAN. The second one (B) is attached to A via PPP. A is > also doing proxy arp for B. > > How do I make A forward broadcast packets between B and the LAN? I tried > to turn on the sysctl variable net.inet.ip.directed_broadcast but the > variable does not seem to exist. If you're using iijppp you need to add the -alias flag. If it doesn't like that or you're having problems see http://www.freebsd.org/~brian for an upgrae. If you're using pppd you need to add 'proxyarp' to your config file. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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