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From: jdlacour@dlsunf.dal.mobil.com (J. D. La Coursiere [Jeff])
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SLIP network problem
Date: 8 Oct 1993 13:40:58 GMT
Organization: Mobil Oil Corporation
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Sender: jdlacour@dlsunf (J. D. La Coursiere [Jeff])
Distribution: world
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Keywords: SLIP, routing

>	I was quite sucesfull setting up a SLIP connection between my
>386bsd PC at home and a SunOS machine at college. The machine I am connecting
>to is a router connected to subnetworks A.B.1 and A.B.2. My machine gets
>assigned the address A.B.2.PC and the sl0 interface is configured between
>A.B.2.PC -> A.B.2.Server with netmask 255.255.255.0. Adding as default
>route A.B.2.Server allows me to see all of the internet except the A.B.2
>subnetwork (the same goes for the rest of the machine on the A.B.2 subnetwork
>wich cannot see the PC).
>
>	I would appreciate if anyone had any idea how to overcome this 
>situation.

To take a quick stab at it, if you have an ethernet card in your machine
you probably have a route for the A.B.2 network pointing to your ethernet
card interface (ed0?).  You should be able to remove all routes except the
localhost route and your default route to the campus router (unless you have
a HAN - Home are network :-> in which case you will have to assign your ethernet
card another subnet address, as well as the rest of your home machines...).


Jeff LaCoursiere
Network Admin
Mobil Research Facility
Dallas, TX

lacoursj@dal.mobil.com