From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 24 19:10:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA01905 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 May 1997 19:10:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (ns2.BEACH.net [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA01900 for ; Sat, 24 May 1997 19:10:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id CAA10768; Sun, 25 May 1997 02:09:31 GMT Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 19:09:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Robert cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trying to solve ppp to remote link In-Reply-To: <338770A1.70D2@chalmers.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 25 May 1997, Robert wrote: > I have a class C network, and a temporary 'permanent' dial up > connection to an internet connected site. What I want to be able > to do is dial that site using fbsd's ppp, and have my network > be connected to the internet via that link. Now, the problem is, > the other site assigns my side 203.22.80.21, So the serial interface is on 203.22.80.21 > whereas my network is 203.1.96.0,and the server is 203.1.96.5. For And the ethernet interface is on 203.1.96.5 In /etc/sysconfig set gateway=yes. I can't see any other problem here. > other reasons, I would prefer to have my end of the ppp link set > as 203.1.96.4. (I will have a 'permanent', permanent link again soon). Why? That (the address) only makes it harder to route, not easier. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82