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Date:      Wed, 14 Jul 1999 01:03:00 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        "thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se" <thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: PPP and client gateway 
Message-ID:  <199907140003.BAA78534@dev.lan.awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:59:00 %2B0200." <01BECD2F.7A34F300.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> 

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> I have succesfully ( well sort of ! ) installed userland PPP as a server. it 
> (together with mgetty) allows users (win95) to connect via modem and surf the 
> web, or atleast that was the thought. It seems that everything is just fine 
> with the clients except that they get assigned their own IP as gateway. DNS 
> is correct and IP gets assigned to them as I specify, but when they run 
> winipcfg the gateway is the same as their assigned IP. How do I fix this.. 
> just tried I longshot in ppp.conf and specified 'gateway x.x.x.x', but of 
> course as you all probably know that didnt work (illegal command :) )..

This can't be controlled from the FreeBSD (server) end.  I *think* 
this is expected for Windows though - your default route is via the 
local end of the ppp link rather than the remote end (making things 
somewhat confusing).

> Regards,
> 
> Thomas Uhrfelt

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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@FreeBSD.org>
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