Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:05:31 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Young' <young@richardson.apana.org.au> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: aliasing and freetel Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105BE3@site2s1>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Young [SMTP:young@richardson.apana.org.au] > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 5:53 PM > To: Christopher Michaels > Subject: Re: aliasing and freetel > > > >When you say alias, are we talking about IP aliasing, or the alias > command > >to redirect specific ports to other computers? > > > I think what I need is the latter. I don't think I need IP aliasing > because > I have plenty "real" numbers (203.3.126.x ones) but I do want to allow LAN > boxes > with one of those numbers to get http, ftp, irc etc access via the local > gateway. > You don't need alias if you have real IP addresses for all of your machines. Just forget about aliasing. > >Are you not able to ping anything from the bsd machine itself? As > opposed > >to other machines on the network. > > can ping the first of the DNS numbers (203.3.126.1) but nothing else. I've > checked from other boxes running Win98 / Win2000 and no problem with > ping from them so its something in the BSD setup > So you can access the internet from your win98 machine, or you can access the other machines on your network from the win98 machine? > > > >What's the output of a traceroute on one of those failed hosts? > > seems traceroute is broken, not installed, or I don't know how to use it > in BSD ... in Win9x / NT I just open a DOS window and type "tracert > <address> but that doesn't do anything on the BSD box > Shouldn't make assumptions. I didnt say what's the output of 'tracert' I said what's the output of 'traceroute'. :) > > > >Maybe you should attach a copy of your config file to a reply. > > Tried that but whenever I copy it to floppy it immediately makes the > floppy > unreadable in Windows ... there used to be some utility in linux to copy > stuff without problems but haven't been able to locate it in BSD > If it's a msdos formatted floppy there shouldn't be any problem. Are you mouting the floppy with a command similar to 'mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt' ? > > > >Oh, and are you adding a route, either manually or in the ppp.conf, > >generally it looks like add 0 0 HISADDR > > Thats a good question ... Initially I had a line in ppp.conf "0 0 > HISADDR", > but later I changed that to 203.3.126.1 (the address of the server end) Is > that > a good thing or not ?? I didn't have any idea I was supposed to supposed > to > add a line "route add 0 0 HISADDR" in /etc/rc.conf, or anything like that > 1. If the ip at the other end is static, what you did is fine. You don't add it to rc.conf, just in the ppp.conf. > Whats the relevance of "HISADDR" anyway, I don't understand how that > means anything to this box or the one at other end of dialup connection. > It's basically a variable that ppp uses for the IP at the other end of the link. Not all ISPs have the same address at the other end of the link, especially when it's a dynamically assigned address. So, since putting a static address in the conf file is a bad idea for most people, there's a variable to represent what the other side of the link is. That's all it means. And it's only relevant to ppp. -Chris P.S. CC: all replies to the list! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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