[Q] Newbie PPP dial up problem

Donovan J. Edye d.edye at bigfoot.com
Sun Oct 7 23:04:00 EST 2001


M,

I did that and it works (I am connecting to another private network hence
the no need for NAT). As I understand it I have enabled forwarding between
my interfaces ie ppp0 and eth0. Is that correct or have I missed the boat
again?

--D

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Martijn van Oosterhout [mailto:kleptog at svana.org]
Sent:	Sunday, 7 October 2001 20:28
To:	Donovan J. Edye
Cc:	Linux List
Subject:	Re: [Q] Newbie PPP dial up problem

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 08:11:14PM +1000, Donovan J. Edye wrote:
> Shane,
>
> Thanks for the pointer, but the other problem I have is that I cannot seem
> to get traffic that is on eth0 to go out the ppp0 port. Not sure that NAT
> addresses that.

You did enable IP forwarding, right?

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

or something like that.

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