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From: tusharp@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Tushar Patel,430,X8847)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Slip: I cant access any other machine outside of it.
Date: 3 Oct 1995 15:24:52 GMT
Organization: Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector
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Distribution: world
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>>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, 

I have the same problem.

>
>That's because:
>
>A) You haven't set the slip server as a gateway.  You need to type
>   `sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1' to enable that functionality
>   (as root) on the server.
>
>B) You haven't set the slip server to be the client's default gateway.
>   Check your windows software - there should be a field for this.
>
>
>-- 
>						Jordan


I did both the suggestion mentioned in the above mail. I did the following
in my slip.loging file.

/sbin/ifconfig sl${slipunit} inet $localaddr $remoteaddr netmask $netmask up
route add default $remoteaddr

I am not able to ping the $remoteaddr.

Slip sever is not running the name server. Do I really need to run this?
Currently I am running the name server provided by my ISP.
So, in my window's trumpet winsock , in the dns entry I specify ip address
of the ISP's name server. Is this correct?

Do I really have to compile the kernerl with the "options GATEWAY"?

I went through archive of this news group and implemented the above mentioned
suggestions. I went through the TCP/IP book by O'riely(sic).
Still I have the same problem.

Part of my /etc/netstart look's like this:

routedflags=-q 
#timedflags=-M  
xntpdflags="NO"
ntpdate="NO"
rwhod=YES
sendmail_flags="-bd -q30m"
amdflags="NO"
nfs_server=NO
name_server=NO
savecore=NO
#kerberos_server=YES
#gated=YES


Can somebody please help me?

 
Thanks,
Tushar




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Tushar Patel