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From: kfurge@wqs1.ysi.com (K.C. Furge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Setting a SLIP server
Date: 28 Aug 1995 14:12:16 GMT
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paul (paul@comcirc.com.au) wrote:
: Can anyone help me with a problem in setting up a SLIP server using 
: FReeBSD.  I have followed the instructions in the FreeBSD handbook 
: located at http://www.freebsd.org.  

: I have set up a SLIP account on the server and I can dial into it OK 
: using chameleon for windows software.  The problem is that I can only 
: access the server and I cant access any other machine outside of it, 
: not even my router. ie.  when I ping my SLIP host, it pings Ok ( I can 
: also ping my SLIP client machine from my SLIP server ), but when I ping 
: anything else I dont get any result back.  

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: Could anyone please give me any hints on how to resolve this problem. 
: Any help would be greatly apprecitated.

: Paul.

Make sure that you have compiled your kernel with the "options GATEWAY" 
directive.  If you didn't, IP packets won't be forwarded to your slip 
connection from the outside.

- K.C. Furge
kfurge@ysi.com

P.S. Check your reply-to address.  Didn't seem to work.