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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!hunter.premier.net!netnews.worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.net.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: PPP semi-tunneling Date: 24 Jun 1996 02:43:56 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4qkrss$19r@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Maybe someone can come up with a way of overcomming my dilema - it's just a temporary thing, but I couldn't figure a way to do it. I have a home machine and a laptop, both running FreeBSD. My home machine connects to the internet each night using a modem to an ISP and exchanges email and news. I have a news server on both machines, and when I connect my laptop to my home machine, it exchanges email & news with it. The result is being able to do stuff off-line on my laptop, and then hop it back to the internet through my home machine. I am now in the US for a month, and would like to do the same thing. The problem is that I don't want to dial my home machine directly. I can connect my laptop to a WAN where one of the London machines has a modem that can dial my home machine. The problem is that the London machine supports neither slip or ppp. Can anyone figure a way to get a packet to route from one end to the other? The diagram: -------------- --------------- ---------- | Home |----Serial------| London |----IP-----| Laptop | -------------- --------------- ---------- The Laptop <=> London link is transparent IP-wise. TIA. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....