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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.math.psu.edu!ra.nrl.navy.mil!news.nrl.navy.mil!talmage From: talmage@cmf.nrl.navy.mil (David Talmage) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: router ppp Date: 12 Jan 1996 16:33:57 GMT Organization: Center for Computational Science, NRL Lines: 40 Message-ID: <TALMAGE.96Jan12113357@riker.cmf.nrl.navy.mil> References: <nicolas.scheffer-1201960122060001@scheffer.pobox.oleane.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: riker.cmf.nrl.navy.mil In-reply-to: nicolas.scheffer@csc.tfnet.org's message of Fri, 12 Jan 1996 01:22:06 +0100 In <nicolas.scheffer-1201960122060001@scheffer.pobox.oleane.com>, nicolas.scheffer@csc.tfnet.org (Nicolas Scheffer) wrote: >I would like to know if on NetBSD i can use the station to route ip via >the modem to internet. I would like to go in the same time on Internet Yes, you can. I have a desktop network in which a NetBSD Amiga 3000 and a PowerBook Duo 230 are connected by Ethernet. The Amiga is connected to the Internet using PPP. The Amiga acts as a gateway for the Duo. On your NetBSD machine, do these things: 1. When you start pppd, make sure that you use the 'defaultroute' option. 2. When you configure your ethernet interface, give it the same IP address as your ppp interface. On your Ethernet-only Macs, do this: 1. In the MacTCP control panel, set the gateway address to that of the Ethernet interface on your NetBSD machine. You may find that your Ethernet-only Macs hang when they try to access the Internet when your NetBSD machine isn't connected to ppp. If that happens, see if your ISP will let your NetBSD machine be an unofficial secondary DNS. If you can do that, then use the MacTCP control panel to set the DNS IP address to that of the gateway. When I set up my desktop network, I needed to keep all of the machines in the same domain. My network admin allotted me a 3-bit subnet. Yours may have to do the same. Good luck! -- David Talmage Kaman Sciences Corporation talmage@cmf.nrl.navy.mil, http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/CCS/people/talmage/