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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!news.ecn.bgu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!silver.ucs.indiana.edu!jdross From: jack david ross <jdross@indiana.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: pppd almost up! Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 13:16:33 -0500 Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 31 Message-ID: <Pine.ULT.3.91.950710131416.25371A-100000@silver.ucs.indiana.edu> References: <Pine.ULT.3.91.950706174218.1345B-100000@silver.ucs.indiana.edu> <3tjomb$stm@mips.infocom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: silver.ucs.indiana.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: jdross@silver.ucs.indiana.edu In-Reply-To: <3tjomb$stm@mips.infocom.com> If anyone out there would be willing to look at my system to see if they can fix it, feel free! (the username is explore) telnet to ppp.sjcpl.lib.in.us I have tried almost everything. -jack ross On 7 Jul 1995, Dave Hovemeyer wrote: > jack david ross (jdross@indiana.edu) wrote: > : hello all, > : I set up pppd, but I have one problem, when I assign an ip > : address to the remote host it recieves it and all it can do is telnet to > : just the server no other machines, and the network does not recognize it > : on the network. I'm I missing an option some where, I have tried maybe > : 25 combinations of ip address in the options file, is there something > : more on another network file? > : -jack ross > : jdross@freenet.sjcpl.lib.in.us > > The ppp-only machine should have the ppp interface be the default route: > pppd's `default' option. The machine connected to the network > should advertize its hardware address as the ppp-only machine's IP > address: pppd's `proxyarp' option. > > Make sure that the ppp-only machine's ppp interface has a valid > IP address and hostname and you should be all set. > > Dave > >