From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 19:52:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA21459 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 19:52:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from synwork.com (root@synwork.com [199.3.234.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA21451 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 19:52:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (flaq@localhost) by synwork.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA01146; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 21:51:58 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 21:51:58 -0500 (CDT) From: "Mike K." To: Anil John cc: Wes Side Story , "'Charlie ROOT'" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "'Khetan Gajjar'" Subject: RE: user PPP server problem In-Reply-To: <01BB7A72.E99A8920@ppp84.bcpl.lib.md.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > You kind of lost me here... The network card in my FreeBSD box has the IP > address of 192.168.0.1 (set using ifconfig_ed0 in syconfig). The Win 95 > box has an IP address of 192.168.0.2. The IP address of the FreeBSD box is > assigned when I log onto the internet. Could this be the problem? Do I > need a static IP for this to work? > > Any help at all would be appreciated, or at least a pointer to a FAQ... > > Anil > > I didn't think you could use 192.168.0.* without using a proxy server. My understanding was that this is a private or reserved block of IP's. I don't think there is any routing setup anywhere on the public side of the internet to get the packets back to your box. Mike ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Syn-Work Media, Inc. | WWW Development & Hosting | Life Safety http://www.synwork.com | Systems Integration | CCTV mike@synwork.com | Voice/Data/Fiber | Access Control Flaq on IRC | Dukane Distributor | BICSI/RCDD ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~