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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!bofh.dot!usenet From: Stair <stair@stair-s.kaist.ac.kr> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Local ethernet and PPP Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 13:44:46 +0900 Organization: Korea Research Environment Open Network (KREONet) Lines: 31 Message-ID: <31A7E1BE.41C67EA6@stair-s.kaist.ac.kr> References: <4o7eg6$739@hecate.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: stair-s.kaist.ac.kr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) garyj@wam.umd.edu@umd.edu wrote: > > I have two computers, one using FreeBSD and the other using Win95. Both of > them are on a local ethernet. I have assigned the Win95 machine the ip > address 10.0.0.3, and the ethernet interface on the FreeBSD machine 10.0.0.2. > I want to be able to telnet to the FreeBSD machine from the Win95 machine, > and I want to be able to use PPP from the Win95 machine. Is this possible? > How do I do it? Thank you for your help. > > garyj@wam.umd.edu What do you mean by "using PPP from the Win95 machine?" If you meant that you want to telnet to the FBSD machine and run pppd (or like) on the FBSD machine to connect two computers, then there's no need to do that. It is nothing more than wasting resources. If you meant that you want to use the Win95 machine as the gateway to the external internet, then there's no way to do that. Win95 machine cannot work as an internetworking router, while FBSD machine can. Moreover, you must acquire two of "approved" IP addresses from the PPP service provider. 10.x.x.x is for local network which is never to be connected to the global Internet. -- Stair =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Kim, Minsung <stair@chiak.kaist.ac.kr> CS Dept., KAIST