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Since yesterday I have a second FreeBSD machine in my private network.
The old machine has a dialup-access to my ISP.

Now I want to run Netscape on my second machine and connect it via my
first machine to the Internet.

What works so far:

a) My first machine is able to connect to my ISP by dialing in.
b) Both machine see each other (pinging and ftp'ing is possible).

What does not work:

When I start netscape on the second machine and try to access the
internet Iget a message
xxx.org unknown server.

I think a route is missing.

What did I forget? Unfortunately the "Pedantic PPP Primer" only
describes how to connect
Windows-machines to a FreeBSD gateway.

Thanks for the help

Georg

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At least part of the solution would be to set up your network with
the dialling machine as the network's gateway, possibly with a
caching nameserver.

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I have set the dialling machine to be a gateway. But how does the other
machine know that it should use this gateway (I think that is the
problem).

Thanks

Georg

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You have to set up a default route in 'the other machine':

        route add default <ip of the ethernet NIC in the dialling machine>

This will instruct 'the other machine' to send to 'the dialling machine'
when it needs to send to an IP-address outside your network.

Now, for the next question: how does the Internet know where to send
the response ?
Answer: This will only work if
        'the other machine' has an official IP-address
        or
        you set up NAT (network address translation) in
        'the dialling machine'.

Good luck,
  -Arve

=>Since yesterday I have a second FreeBSD machine in my private network.
=>The old machine has a dialup-access to my ISP.
=>
=>Now I want to run Netscape on my second machine and connect it via my
=>first machine to the Internet.
=>
=>What works so far:
=>
=>a) My first machine is able to connect to my ISP by dialing in.

If you use user mode PPP, make sure you specify -alias flag for NAT.

Read "man ppp" and ppp faq on "lynx www.freebsd.org"  for detail.

=>b) Both machine see each other (pinging and ftp'ing is possible).

On window machine, go to control panel->network-> and update your default
route on your tcpip/nic interface to be the ip of the ppp dialout machine.
Get a window networking book for this.

=>
=>What does not work:
=>
=>When I start netscape on the second machine and try to access the
=>internet Iget a message
=>xxx.org unknown server.
=>
=>I think a route is missing.
=>
=>What did I forget? Unfortunately the "Pedantic PPP Primer" only
=>describes how to connect
=>Windows-machines to a FreeBSD gateway.
=>
=>Thanks for the help
=>
=>
=>Georg

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I forgot to send a kill -HUP to inetd after doing the configuration (or to
reboot both machines).

Quote:

> > > At least part of the solution would be to set up your network with
> > > the dialling machine as the network's gateway, possibly with a
> > > caching nameserver.

> > I have set the dialling machine to be a gateway. But how does the other
> > machine know that it should use this gateway (I think that is the
> > problem).

> defaultrouter="xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa"

> Replace xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa with the IP of your gateway machine.

Sorry for having wasted bandwidth and a thank you to all who rsponded.

Georg

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