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Date:      Wed, 29 Apr 1998 07:47:32 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Odd problem with ppp -alias ... 
Message-ID:  <199804290647.HAA20662@awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Apr 1998 17:42:49 -0300." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980428173911.2113G-100000@thelab.hub.org> 

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> 
> Morning...
> 
> 	I just setup an 'internal, at home' network of two machines,
> hooked together with a single 10baseT ethernet cable, no hub.  Machine A
> (with modem) is configured as 192.168.0.1, Machine B is 192.168.0.2.
> 
> 	Now, if I try to telnet from Machine B to A, with no default route
> set, it works fine.  As soon as I set a default route for machine B to
> point at Machine A, it no longer works.
> 
> 	*If* I startup 'ppp -auto -alias <dialup server>', the routing
> works fine *but* I'd prefer not to have to keep the connection up 24/7...
> 
> 	I've gone over everything I can think of, but can't find anything
> obviously wrong...when everything is up, I can telnet to remote hosts from
> the 'hidden' machine, so everything appears to be fine...
> 
> 	Both machines are running 3.0, one SNAP, the other about a month
> old, if that means anything...?
> 
> 	Thanks for any help you can provide...

Your local machine names/IPs aren't resolving.  You should probably 
set up a local dns that primaries for your LAN and specifies your 
ISPs DNSs as forwards.

> Marc G. Fournier                                
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
> primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 
-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....



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