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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!cronkite.ocis.temple.edu!astro.ocis.temple.edu!lafollet From: lafollet@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Paul Lafollette) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: SLIP and routing Date: 19 Jul 1994 17:53:13 GMT Organization: Temple University, Academic Computer Services Lines: 44 Message-ID: <30h3u9$gjj@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: astro.ocis.temple.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi, I have managed to semi-successfully get SLIP working between the FreeBSD system at home and the one in my office at work. Semi-successfully because, while I can telnet and ftp without probelm between home machine and office machine... i can't get to any sites beyond my office... i.e. the rest of the campus or the internet beyond. I think that the problem is that office machine and home machine know about each other... but anything beyond my office machine has no way of knowing that my office machine has a route to my home machine... so if i ping, say, another site... my packets get to the distant site, but distant site has no idea of how to send packets back. The question is... is it possible to rectify this problem by changing things on only the machines that i control (office and home) wihtout having to get messed up in changing anything on other machines. In a bit more detail... Our campus net consists of several subnets. The internet numbers assigned to my office and my home machiens are on the same sub net, which has a netmask of 0xffffff00 (which may be obvious to the network-literate but isn't to me, so i include the information :) At the moment, routed is not running on the office mahcine. Rather at boot it is given the one command "route add default xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" which has worked just fine. (The xxx's are of course an actual address) Both home and office machines are 486's running FreeBSD. Anyway, if anyone has any advice or can tell me that what i want to do is impossible, or whatever, I would greatly appreciate it. The phrase "proxy arp" keeps banging around in the back of my consciousness as regards this problem... does it have any applicability? Thanks in advance. Paul Paul LaFollette CIS Dept. Temple University Philadelphia, PA 19119 lafollet@andante.cis.temple.edu lafolet@astro.ocis.temple.edu