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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!news From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ISP connect - need a default gateway? Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 12:47:33 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Cold Coast, Australia) Lines: 32 Message-ID: <322B9C45.456D@OntheNet.com.au> References: <321EEB4D.6BD2@alaska.net> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5aGold (WinNT; I) To: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> hmmm wrote: > > thanks to user-ppp docs, i am able to get that going. > > but i can't get ftp or lynx to realize a connection. > > route only sees my lo0 connection, and i can't add > a new entry into the kernels routing tables (get > conection doesn't exist or something). > > can anyone tell me how to get ftp & lynx to realize > a tcp/ip with my ISP thru my tun0 PPP interface? > > i have a static IP address ... all i can think of > is my static routes="" in sysconfig because i'm not sure > how to fill this entry. Basically, you need a routing table entry for every network you might ever want to reach (impractical!) or a DEFAULT route that gets your packets to the nearest 'real' router. This can be done with a default gateway entry if the system you connect to is always the same so that the IP address doesn't vary. Also, the Internet needs to know now to get packets back to you for anything to work so your IP address has to be know by the Internet as well. If it was given to you by an ISP then hopefully the routing tables already know what to do (ie. you have one address in a Class-C CIDR block that is already operational). I'm a little surprised that the IJPPP stuff didn't provide you with a default route. Did you disable (or not enable, I can't remember what the default ?! is) this behaviour? Tony