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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!hermes.oc.com!news.unt.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news1.cris.com!news From: dantso@cris.com (Daniel Ts'o) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Help with user PPP (server) and net routing Date: Sat, 27 Jan 96 19:14:39 GMT Organization: Baylor College of Medicine Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4edtes$o9g@spectator.cris.com> References: <wsuffaDLK4BC.Bwx@netcom.com> <4e6knk$pjh@helena.MT.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: crc13-fddi.cris.com Keywords: PPP, routine X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13243 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:41992 In article <4e6knk$pjh@helena.MT.net>, nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) wrote: >That's because none of the machines on the outside world know how to >route packets to your boxes. They are receiving packets from a machine >known to them in the '10.0.1.0' domain, and don't know that the route to >that address if from your FreeBSD box. > >Either you have to have your FreeBSD setup as a proxy host (so all the >packets appears to be coming from your FreeBSD box), or you have to get >valid IP addresses from your ISP and use them on your other boxes. Please explain how to setup Freebsd as a proxy host. Thank you. Cheers, Dan Ts'o Division of Neuroscience Baylor College of Medicine 1 Baylor Plaza S603 Houston, TX 77030 dantso@cris.com 713-798-3331 713-798-3897 FAX