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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: User PPP (iijppp) and routing
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 11:31:36 +0100
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <timleeECwzr4.8tL@netcom.com>,
timlee@netcom.com (Timothy J. Lee) writes:
> With FreeBSD 2.2.1, I configured and used the user PPP (iijppp)
> according to the on line handbook and ppp man page. I can get a PPP
> connection and an IP address from the remote host (a SunOS 4.1.3
> machine with pppd), and "show ipcp" shows the expected IP addresses.
> "show route" does not give a route to either the IP assigned by the
> remote host, or the IP address of the remote host. This means that
> attempts to telnet the remote host's IP address or others it is
> connected to fail.
>
> What else needs to be done to get the routing across the PPP connection
> to work properly?
What does "netstat -rn" say ? Have you specified your target
(maybe guessed) IP number in ppp.conf on the command line ?
set ifaddr 10.10.10.10/0 10.10.11.11/0
add 0 0 10.10.11.11
The HISADDR bit in the old docs is bogus. HISADDR is only available
in ppp.linkup.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !