Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 12:57:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brad Tucker <zvi@t-networking.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <19980524125741.C353@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980523202627.7549A-100000@zvi.t-networking.com>; from Brad Tucker on Sat, May 23, 1998 at 08:28:27PM -0700 References: <19980524115809.B353@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980523202627.7549A-100000@zvi.t-networking.com>
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On Sat, 23 May 1998 at 20:28:27 -0700, Brad Tucker wrote: > On Sun, 24 May 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Sat, 23 May 1998 at 18:55:00 -0700, Brad Tucker wrote: >>> I have a freebsd box at home, and a win 95 box. I have ethernet cards on >>> both boxes. In the freebsd box I have a modem. I would like to use the >>> freebsd box as a gateway for the win95 box. I tried setting the >>> geteway=yes in rc.conf. this didnt seem to work. When i try to ping >>> somewhere thats not at home from the win95 box I get "Request Timed Out." >>> Do I need to set the freebsd box to be a router?? Is there an easy way to >>> tell the freebsd box to take any requests from the device ed0 and give >>> them to the devices tun0? Will someone please push me into the right >>> direction. >> >> It looks like you've done the right thing on the FreeBSD box. Have >> you told the Microsoft box that the FreeBSD box is the gateway? If >> so, you should try using tcpdump to see what the Microsoft box is >> doing, and if the packets go out over the ppp line. > > allright, > microsoft knows the freebsd box is the gateway. I did a tcpdump, and I > got was arp whereis destination ..... and nothing went back to the win 95 > box. I also did a tcpdump on tun0, and there was nothing there. No > packets go out of the tun0 device. Any other ideas? Should I add a route > add line, or a arp comand??? Are you sure your ethernet is configured at the FreeBSD end? Can you ping in either direction? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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