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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!kd From: kd@doc.ic.ac.uk (Kostis Dryllerakis) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: SLIP network problem Date: 8 Oct 93 17:01:48 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London Lines: 33 Message-ID: <kd.750099708@laotzu> References: <kd.750077497@confucius> <293qla$ect@dlsn31> NNTP-Posting-Host: laotzu.doc.ic.ac.uk Keywords: SLIP, routing In <293qla$ect@dlsn31> jdlacour@dlsunf.dal.mobil.com (J. D. La Coursiere [Jeff]) writes: >> 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...). I should have better explained in my question that I have no ethernet card on my PC at home and that i have tried routing with enough routing combinations on my side and still does not work. The problem can be more generally put as: what do you need to do when you connect to a machine on a subnetwork A.B.C as part of the same subnet (e.g. get assigned A.B.C.yoU) in order to see the rest of the subnetwork (from the side of the machine you connect to maybe?) Kostis