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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
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