🚀 go-pugleaf

Ernest Clinton Arbaugh Jr (cea@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu) wrote:
: I've got PPP running on a pair of SPARCstations, but  I can't seem 
: to get them to route.   Here's basically what things look like:
: (Greatly simplified.)
: 
: Local Site    Remote Site 
: +----+        +----+
: |  A |--------|  D |
: +----+  PPP   +----+
:    |            |
:    |   <.   .>  |
:    |     \ /    |
: +----+    Y   +----+
: |  B |    |   |  E |
: +----+    |   +----+
:    |      |
:    |  <- Ethernet
:    |
: +----+
: |  C |
: +----+
: 
: That's machines A, B, and C at the local site connected via ethernet and
: machines D and E at the remote site connected to each other via ethernet
: with PPP running between machines A and D over a dial-up line which I 
: bring up after the machines are finished booting.
: 
: Machines A and D are communicating with each other, but E can't ping A,
: B can't ping D, etc.  I've tried a myriad of things, none of which worked.
: Can anybody tell me what I _should_ be doing?  Surely someone has this
: working successfully out in Usenet land.  Let me know what works, please!

This is exactly the same problem that I have encountered running PPP
between a Sun workstation and a PC running Esix 4.0.3.  I too would
like a solution to this frustrating dilemma!

derek
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