From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 23 3:39:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from volodya.prime.net.ua (volodya.prime.net.ua [195.64.229.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E379F14FCC for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 03:39:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyo@prime.net.ua) Received: from prime.net.ua (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by volodya.prime.net.ua (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03743 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:49:03 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from andyo@prime.net.ua) Message-ID: <3770BB99.F760FCD9@prime.net.ua> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:48:58 +0300 From: "Andy V. Oleynik" Organization: M-Info X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: ru, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: how does ppp's routing work? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, notme wrote: > > > I have just set my FreeBSD box so that it dials > > to my ISP on demand. I currently have 2 Win* > > computers connected to the FreeBSD box, like > > the following: > > > > > > ISP <-----phoneline---> FreeBSD > > _____|_____ > > | | > > Win #1 Win #2 > > > > I was able to use ICQ and such, but I am just wondering, > > how does this ppp -auto -alias demand work? Both of > > the machines shares the same IP, (the IP of which FreeBSD > > gets from my ISP) and both of my machines could see > > each other on ICQ (which requires unique IPs) and play > > online network games. > > You can't use ICQ behind a NAT firewall due to ICQ's totally twisted > protocol. If you install socks5, though, you can tell ICQ to use the > socks5 proxy instead and it'll work fine. > > Every machine on a network should have unique IPs. I'm surprised the > Windows machines didn't cry foul when they saw one another. He sais about FreeBSD's IP that it gets from ISP > > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- WBW Andy V. Oleynik (When U work in virtual office U have good chance to obtain virtual money ö%-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message