From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 1 6: 5:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC94B37B417 for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 06:05:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id g41D5Wa08105; Wed, 1 May 2002 16:05:32 +0300 Message-Id: <200205011305.g41D5Wa08105@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 1 May 02 16:03:26 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: ecerejo@zapo.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 16:03:24 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: How to enable IP Forwarding References: <20020430223634.B85537-100000@localhost> In-reply-to: <200205010234.45146.ecerejo@zapo.net> X-info: Headers changed by Barricade Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! > I have one NIC and I'm using a dialup connection. Here's the output: > > fxp0: flags=8802 mtu 1500 > ether 00:a0:c9:d9:7b:97 > media: Ethernet autoselect (none) > status: no carrier status: no carrier and media (none) means that your fxp0 interface thinks it is not connected to any network. Maybe you have bad cable? You need to fix this before you can get any further. Once that problem is solved, I *think* you need to assign a non-routable IP address to fxp0 and another address on the same network to your laptop. But I'll leave explaining the details to someone who has actually used FreeBSD to share PPP connection - I've never done it myself. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * If you cannot change your mind, are you sure you have one? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message