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Article #444Re: Dialing in
From: Tom Bird
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 00:00
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 00:00
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In article <DFAUzAAAPyr4EwAV@btinternet.com>, Tom Bird <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes >In article <950968292.7903.0.nnrp-13.9e98d142@news.demon.co.uk>, Ian >Stirling <Inquisitor@I.am> writes >>Tom Bird <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote: >>>In article <950552342.15352.0.nnrp-11.9e98d142@news.demon.co.uk>, Ian >>>Stirling <Inquisitor@I.am> writes >>>>Tom Bird <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote: >>>>>I have a problem. I have a mate who is too far away to sling a network >><snip> >> >>I forgot to mention, if you are talking about you being the PPP server, >>then it can be simpler. >> >>echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward >[snip] > >Got it pegged. Requires route add [dialup] [gateway] manually on the >Windows command prompt (it seems to ignore the fact that the Linux box >is set as the default gateway) but requires no routes to be added to the >dialing in machine except to have the Linux one as the default gateway. Further to that, I found that the Windoze box was ignoring the default router since I use DHCP to configure my network. Adding "option routers = 192.168.0.2" to dhcpd.conf sorted that. TB Busby the Cat 1984 - 22.9.1999
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac57,581e5174cf5040ab X-Google-Attributes: gidfac57,public From: Tom Bird <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Dialing in Date: 2000/02/20 Message-ID: <OkZHrCA5CDs4EwL+@btinternet.com> X-Deja-AN: 587845016 References: <Eg2FaBASI3p4EwjZ@btinternet.com> <950552342.15352.0.nnrp-11.9e98d142@news.demon.co.uk> <W1RRvMAGZir4EwB8@btinternet.com> <950968292.7903.0.nnrp-13.9e98d142@news.demon.co.uk> <DFAUzAAAPyr4EwAV@btinternet.com> Organization: Tom's TeamServer Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Tom Bird <tombird@btinternet.com> Newsgroups: demon.tech.unix