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Date:      Wed, 28 Jun 1995 00:31:56 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Rob Snow <rsnow@legend.txdirect.net>
Cc:        John Beukema <jbeukema@hk.super.net>, Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: packet forwarding 
Message-ID:  <199506280731.AAA00673@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 Jun 95 02:14:40 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.91.950629020541.408A-100000@oasis> 

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>On Tue, 27 Jun 1995, David Greenman wrote:
>>
>> >I have the EXACT same problem,  and I dont really understand why.  If I
>              ^^^^^ 
>	      read 'ALMOST the EXACT'
>> >default to my ppp machine from my non-ppp machine then shouldnt my ppp machine
>> >default to my ISP?
>> 
>>    Perhaps I'm missing something, but why would your ISP send packets for
>> 10.x.x.x back to you? The "10" net is supposed to be local-only.
>
>#define PPP	ppp machine with lp0 to LOST and tun0 to ISP
>		starts at 204.57.120.200 and gets reassigned to 
>		204.57.120.[50-100].  ifconfig lp0 inet PPP LOST
>
>#define LOST	204.57.120.201 with ifconfig lp0 inet LOST PPP
>
>#define ISP	204.57.120.3
>		
>
>LOST can always ping/rlogin to PPP.
>PPP can always ping/rlogin to LOST.
>PPP can always ping/rlogin to ISP.
>(except Netscape hangs with a DNS lookup failure if it is the program 
>that starts an ondemand connection, but that's another story)
>
>LOST can NEVER ping/rlogin to ISP.

   You need to add 'options GATEWAY' to your kernel config file.

-DG



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