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From: steveo@iol.ie (Steve O'Hara-Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP troubles
Date: 15 Mar 1996 09:54:34 GMT
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In article <1996Mar15.060521.6471@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>,
	mh001b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Matthew W. Hacker) writes:
>
>
>I'm having a tiny problem with PPP.  Everything looks like it's working,
>but the remote machine can only see the machine at the other end of the
>link, nothing on the network at large.  I was under the impression that
>proxyarp was sufficent to make things be happy.  I am much confused.
>I even checked a networked machine's arp tables and it had an entry for
>the remote machine with the hardware ethernet address of the local machine.
>Seems right, but it doesn't work.
>

	On the remote machine you need to add a default route when the
PPP link comes up (assuming the whole world - or at least as much of it as
exists is through the PPP link). The easiest way of doing it is to add
defaultroute to the pppd parameters.

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