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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!snowdon.elsevier.co.uk!news From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dialup router Date: 30 Aug 1996 15:44:30 +0100 Organization: ISEPD, Elsevier Science Ltd., Oxford. Lines: 24 Sender: dpr@tees Message-ID: <5720gpx775.fsf@elsevier.co.uk> References: <32225EAE.41C67EA6@wcubed.net> <32266F75.2781E494@wcubed.net> <576861xays.fsf@elsevier.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: tees.elsevier.co.uk X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.30 Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> writes: > Brad Waite <brad@wcubed.net> writes: > > > I guess I should have explained the situation better. I want to set up > > my BSD box to be the gateway to the internet for the other machine on my > > network. If I set up IP forwarding and the BSD as the gateway for the > > SGI, ping packets go OUT, but none come back. I'm assuming it's because > > the remote ppp router doesn't know how to route the packets to an IP on > > an unknown subnet. I have only dynamic IP - no class C, so I want the > > BSD machine to handle all the routing. Thanks. > > > > Umm and then an X server to run the applications on. What are you > planning to do with these applications? I guess you've probably realised this wasn't in reference to this thread :-) -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155