From: gbrown@alumni.caltech.edu (Glenn Brown) Subject: Re: ppp and NXHost problems Date: 23 Nov 1994 07:37:57 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena If you want to NXHost over PPP, Simply execute the following 7 lines after the ppp connection has been brought up (these are simply the lines from the rc.net script that signal the nmserver that it should check for new interfaces. Note that the kill command does not kill the nmserver. Rather, it sends the "USR2" signal to the nmserver.) #!/bin/sh # Let the nmserver know the fruits of our network configuration endeavor. pid=`ps cax | egrep nmserver | awk '{print $1;}'` if [ -n "$pid" ]; then echo "Reinitializing nmserver's network portion" /bin/kill -USR2 $pid fi Note 1: You have to executed the lines under "sh". I suggest you save them in a file and type "/bin/sh file". Note 2: I haven't actually tried this (I don't have another NeXT to test it on), but I figured out out reading the rc scripts. Please let me know the result if you try it. --Glenn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In article <4ule10$g2t@nuke.csu.net>, John Rudd wrote: >(isc-ts2-* are our dialup PPP lines.. each line in the hunt group has a >different IP addy associated with it.. so you are likely to get a different >one each time. And this is why I can't do the "Services -> OpenSesame -> >Open on host X", because that sends "-NXHost copernicus".. which is what my >home machine internally identifies itself as) The only way to get -NXHost to work over PPP is to have an IP address assigned to your Ethernet port, and have a route to that address reachable over the PPP. When you try to -NXHost, it uses UDP, and for some reason the UDP protocol decides to use the Ethernet's IP address for outgoing packets, rather than using the PPP's IP address. You'll also have similar problems trying to get talk to work over PPP. Unless there is a route to your Ethernet's IP address, it isn't going to work. -- Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Napa Valley College 707 253 3130 - Voice 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy. 707 253 3063 - Fax Napa, CA 94558 <¬http://www.nvc.cc.ca.us/~fozztexx>