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Date:      Sat, 25 Nov 2000 23:08:52 -0500
From:      Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
To:        01031149@3web.net
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3.3R <--> win95
Message-ID:  <3A208CD4.8ACB0D27@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
References:  <200011260053.eAQ0rNV29737@sludge.pgh.pa.us>

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Duke Normandin wrote:

(snip)

> I realize that my scenario is not the *usual* way! However, I use a free
> ISP that insists in having users run his proprietary win95-only software.
> His dialer does not even show up in $MS DUN window. So Internet
> connections have to happen from the win95 side -- as far as I can tell. It
> would be great if I could run Lynx from the FBSD box and trigger a
> connection in the win95 box - but I've been told that win95 can't do that
> ( I believe that the correct terminology is that it cannot "route").
> 
Well, that's a bummer... but OK, I understand...
> 
> >What does the ep0 interface connect to?
> 
> It connects to my win95 NIC via a x-over cable. As of 11:57:35 PM last
> night, I am now able to successfully ping from both ends.

That is a good sign... Now I'm getting the picture. I thought you
were doing "lap link".

> 
> ep0: flags=8843<UP.BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
>         ether 00:60:97:0c:c4:5e
> tun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>          inet 10.0.0.1 --> 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00
> 

So, does "ps ax" shows an instance of PPP running that is being started
by
some means that you don't know, if I get the picture?

Did you look for a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d ?  . Any script in
there is run at boot time.

The 10.0.0.1 / 10.0.0.2 address pair are probably being assigned in
/etc/ppp/ppp.conf. It just sounds like something is starting up
ppp. If you don't have it started in /etc/rc.conf, then it's gotta
be in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. 

The only other possibility I can think of is that someone modified
/etc/defaults/rc.conf so that it enables it by default. You might
look at that file.

> I can see above that the 2nd line for tun0 is what is causing the problem,
> but how it got that way I just don't know. I set up the NIC /etc/rc.conf
> with ifconfig_ep0="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0". I don't think
> that I hosed that line, did I? Other than that I updated /etc/hosts with
> 

> have this stuff down to a fine science, so any help that you can throw at
> this newbie would be appreciated more than you know. There's no panic for
> this stuff -- just home-schooling myself. Just 2 old 486-66 boxes in the
> basement ;,)
> 

I have one of those myself.. 8-) .

I don't know if it would help you, but there is some sort of gatewaying
available in Win98. One of my clients that I built a server for used it
to connect his office computers to the internet. He must not have been
all that thrilled with it, because he bought a server from me, but I
guess
it worked. Maybe it would somehow work with the stuff your ISP has you
running.

-Jim


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