Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 12:41:50 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>, jacks@sage-american.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPPoE on DSL Clients Message-ID: <200111241141.fAOBfoq08976@peedub.muc.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10111240255270.16775-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10111240255270.16775-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Saturday 24 November 2001 11:59, Annelise Anderson wrote: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2001 jacks@sage-american.com wrote: > > Well.... finally got PPPoE on DSL working just fine on a > > FreeBSD server. Only one problem left to solve and hope for > > a little more help. > > > > The BSD server/gateway (dynamic IP) can ping out and > > resolves addresses without any problem, BUT, none of the > > client workstations can find anything on the Internet. So, > > no browsing, email, ftp, etc. All stations can ping each > > other. > > > > The clients can reach the Internet address (get email, FTP, > > browse, etc) IF, it is put into the "etc/hosts" file, > > whether it is Win2K or other BSD boxes.... each client > > points to the default 192.168.0.1 INTERNAL IP assigned to > > the gateway box running the DSL. The resolv.conf file for > > the DSL box has the proper nameservers for the ISP. DNS is > > enabled in ppp.conf. NAT and gateway is enabled in rc.conf. > > I think you nameserver has to be in resolv.conf (or the > comparable Windows setup) on each client. > > Annelise I recently set up something similar for a friend. He also has some windoze boxes on his network. It was not necessary to do anything special on the windoze machines. I did however put ``enable dns'' in ppp.conf so that ppp automatically puts the nameservers into /etc/resolv.conf on the FBSD router. Maybe this line is missing. -- Gary Jennejohn garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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