From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 17 17:19:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEC9C14DF1 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 17:19:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a073.otenet.gr [195.167.115.73]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA28192 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 03:19:36 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (qmail 4201 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Oct 1999 00:21:31 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP masquerading References: <99101619590100.00738@builtcomp.shred> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 18 Oct 1999 03:21:31 +0300 In-Reply-To: Charlie &'s message of "Sat, 16 Oct 1999 19:38:44 -0700" Message-ID: <8690511ptg.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Charlie & writes: > hello, I was trying to have my FreeBSD machine to be a gateway to the internet. > I did all the instructions in the FreBSD tutorial and successfully connected to > the internet my LAN was able the Internet too. But around 5 minutes that I'm > connected, I got disconnected automatically. I'm using ppp interactive. I'm Are you using the -auto option to ppp, or the -ddial one? When I used % ppp -auto my_isp to connect to the net, it waited until some program tried to connect to the network before the link came up. Can you be more specific, like posting your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf so that we do not try guessing what's wrong? -- Giorgos Keramidas, "That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears." [Geoffrey Chaucer, 1328-1400] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message