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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
- Path: sparky!uunet!rosevax!pwcs!det
- From: det@pwcs.stpaul.gov (Derek Terveer)
- Subject: Re: Need help routing with PPP
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.225427.3082@pwcs.stpaul.gov>
- Organization: City of St. Paul Public Works
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- References: <C1Iw05.7Ey@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:54:27 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- 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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