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- From: rypma@waterloo.hp.com (Ted Rypma)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: SLIP (PPL) and routing ...
- Message-ID: <BtyMvw.H4p@waterloo.hp.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 16:52:44 GMT
- Article-I.D.: waterloo.BtyMvw.H4p
- References: <1992Sep01.102340.11518@zephir.uucp>
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- Organization: HP Panacom Div Waterloo ON Canada
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- Beat Jucker (bj@zephir.uucp) wrote:
- :
- : We have to connect a remote workstation over SLIP (PPL) to our
- : network. The point to point connection is working correct. But
- : how do we have to set the routing table (netmask?) so that we can
- : access all the other computers on the net?
-
- Either all the hosts with which you wish to communicate must have a route
- to your SLIP subnet (through your 'gateway' host), or somehow your 'gateway'
- must respond to ARPs for the SLIP connected workstation. I understand that
- there are ways to force an IP/Ethernet pair into the ARP cache, but I don't
- know how, or if, one can do that on HP-UX.
-
- We use static routes set up on our workstations to access our SLIP-connected
- devices.
-
- Ted Rypma
- HP Panacom Division
-