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Date:      Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:15:19 -0800 (PST)
From:      Robert Clark <clark@open.org>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
Cc:        Stan Brown <stanb@awod.com>, Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.com>
Subject:   Re: Dialing inot my network with FreeBSD laptop. 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980103141404.408G-100000@orthanc.off.net>
In-Reply-To: <199712300306.DAA21035@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>

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Would another correct approach be to use an address on the home network
for the ppp interface, and use the proxyarp functionality?

						[RC]

On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Brian Somers wrote:

> > 	Ok, I have tried a lot of things, and it still does not work. Here is
> > 	waht I am trying to do:
> > 
> > 
> >                                                         ------------
> >                                                         |          |
> >       home network 205.159.77 netmask 25.255.255.0      | FreeBSD  |----> ISP
> >     ----------------------------------------------------| (koala)  | (ppp link)
> >                             |                           |          |
> >                             |                           |          |
> >                         -------------------             -----------
> >                         |                 |
> >                         | 205.159.77.240  | (grizzly)
> >                         |                 |
> >                         -------------------
> >                                  |
> >                                  | <-------- PPP link
> >                                  |
> >                         -------------------
> >                         |                 |
> >                         | FreeBSD laptop  |
> >                         |                 |
> >                         -------------------
> > 	
> > 	What I am trying to do here is to use IJPPP to connect my laptop to my
> > 	hime network, via modem. The box I am connectiong to is an HP
> > 	worksation. I have compile IJPPP on it. HP support assures me that IP
> > 	fowarding is on in it by default. As a matter of fact the tech I spoke
> > 	to was not even certain how to disable it.
> > 
> > 	I have managed to get to the point where the chat script gets me loged
> > 	in and ppp starts. I can then telnet to gtizzly, but I can't get to any
> > 	other machines on the network. Presently I have arbitrarily picke IP
> > 	adddress of 192.168.0.1 for grizzly's ppp device, and 192.168.1.1 for
> > 	the laptops tun0 device. I have the folowing in grizzlys pp.conf
> > 
> > 	set ifaddr 192.168.0.1 205.159.77.233
> > 
> > 	In the laptops ppp.conf, I have the folowing:
> > 
> > 	set ifaddr 127.1.1.1/0 127.1.1.2/0
> > 	add 0 0 127.1.1.2
> > 
> > 	Should I be doing somehting different, like giving the laptop an
> > 	address in the local network range fro the tun0 device?
> > 
> > 	To further complicate things, the laptop is sometimes connected
> > 	directly to the local network using a 3com PCMCIA card.
> > 
> > 	Guys I'm really at the hair pulling stage her. Could sme nteworking
> > 	guru point me in the correct direction?
> 
> Grizzly needs an `enable proxy' line in the config and should have 
> `MYADDR' set to 205.159.77.240 (the same as it's NIC).
> 
> Make sure you've got a `delete all' and `add 0 0 hisaddr' in the 
> laptops ppp.linkup too.
> 
> > -- 
> > Stan Brown     stanb@netcom.com                                    770-996-6955
> > Factory Automation Systems
> > Atlanta Ga.
> > -- 
> > Look, look, see Windows 95.  Buy, lemmings, buy!   
> > Pay no attention to that cliff ahead...            Henry Spencer
> > (c) 1997 Stan Brown.  Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
> 
> -- 
> Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
>       <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
> 
> 
> 
> 




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