From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 25 20: 8:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (ipl-229-095.npt-sdsl.stargate.net [208.223.229.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F11A37B479 for ; Sat, 25 Nov 2000 20:08:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (shazam.w2xo.pgh.pa.us [192.168.5.3]) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA58722; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 04:08:50 GMT (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Message-ID: <3A208CD4.8ACB0D27@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 23:08:52 -0500 From: Jim Durham Organization: Dis- X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 01031149@3web.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.3R <--> win95 References: <200011260053.eAQ0rNV29737@sludge.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Duke Normandin wrote: (snip) > I realize that my scenario is not the *usual* way! However, I use a free > ISP that insists in having users run his proprietary win95-only software. > His dialer does not even show up in $MS DUN window. So Internet > connections have to happen from the win95 side -- as far as I can tell. It > would be great if I could run Lynx from the FBSD box and trigger a > connection in the win95 box - but I've been told that win95 can't do that > ( I believe that the correct terminology is that it cannot "route"). > Well, that's a bummer... but OK, I understand... > > >What does the ep0 interface connect to? > > It connects to my win95 NIC via a x-over cable. As of 11:57:35 PM last > night, I am now able to successfully ping from both ends. That is a good sign... Now I'm getting the picture. I thought you were doing "lap link". > > ep0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 > ether 00:60:97:0c:c4:5e > tun0: flags=8051 mtu 1500 > inet 10.0.0.1 --> 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 > So, does "ps ax" shows an instance of PPP running that is being started by some means that you don't know, if I get the picture? Did you look for a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d ? . Any script in there is run at boot time. The 10.0.0.1 / 10.0.0.2 address pair are probably being assigned in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf. It just sounds like something is starting up ppp. If you don't have it started in /etc/rc.conf, then it's gotta be in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. The only other possibility I can think of is that someone modified /etc/defaults/rc.conf so that it enables it by default. You might look at that file. > I can see above that the 2nd line for tun0 is what is causing the problem, > but how it got that way I just don't know. I set up the NIC /etc/rc.conf > with ifconfig_ep0="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0". I don't think > that I hosed that line, did I? Other than that I updated /etc/hosts with > > have this stuff down to a fine science, so any help that you can throw at > this newbie would be appreciated more than you know. There's no panic for > this stuff -- just home-schooling myself. Just 2 old 486-66 boxes in the > basement ;,) > I have one of those myself.. 8-) . I don't know if it would help you, but there is some sort of gatewaying available in Win98. One of my clients that I built a server for used it to connect his office computers to the internet. He must not have been all that thrilled with it, because he bought a server from me, but I guess it worked. Maybe it would somehow work with the stuff your ISP has you running. -Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message