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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!malgudi.oar.net!wqs1.ysi.com!kfurge 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 Organization: YSI, Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <41sis0$in1@wqs1.ysi.com> References: <41rnar$9m2@otis.netspace.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: wqs1.ysi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. [stuff deleted] : 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.