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Date:      Wed, 05 Nov 1997 23:47:51 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        "Daniel C. Konnoff" <daniel@mysonusa.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ppp routing problems 
Message-ID:  <199711052347.XAA03906@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Nov 1997 12:00:35 PST." <Pine.SUN.3.96.971104115324.7778E-100000@epsilon> 

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> Hello:
> 
> 	We are trying to route our freebsd ppp client to the internet
> 	through out freebsd ppp server but have problems doing so. 
> 	The ppp server machine (mail) is the mail server for our entire
> 	comany with a standard ethernet connection to our isp through
> 	ethernet interface ed0.
> 
> 	Please look at the following diagram:
> 
> 	freebsd machine - tpe ////////////// freebsd machine - mail -> isp
>         (ppp client)           (ppp link)      (ppp server)
> 
> 	The machine tpe and it's clients are able to see the machine mail
> 	without any problems, but they cannot see the isp (or ping
> 	anything beyond the mail machine itself). How do we create the
> 	route from the tun0 interface on machine mail to the ethernet ed0
> 	interface? We tried starting the ppp server with the -direct flag
> 	and this did not help. The normal route add commands don't seem to
> 	work either.
[.....]

Does the ppp server work *without* the -direct flag ?  Hmmm.

I suspect the ``mail'' machine hasn't got its gateway option set in 
/etc/rc.conf.

> Daniel C. Konnoff
> Myson Technologies
> 20111 Stevens Creek Blvd. #138
> Cupertino, Ca. 95014
> 
> daniel@mysonusa.com
> Tele: 408/252-8788
> Fax:  408/252-8789
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org>
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