Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 14:38:20 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> To: "m p" <sumirati@yahoo.de>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Still trying to use FreeBSD as a gateway for PPTP to DSL Message-ID: <009b01c16791$8b0cb830$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20011106160639.7622.qmail@web13302.mail.yahoo.com>
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m p writes: > i don't know anything about PPTP, but if it works > for your FreeBSD machine i see no reason why it > should not work over the net. I agree, but I haven't been able to find enough information on how to configure it to make it work. I finally gave up yesterday and installed a router between the DSL modem and the rest of my LAN (all two machines!). This solved the problem real fast. The router opens the PPTP session, then multiplexes the two machines onto that connection with NAT. I have only one IP for both, but they are essentially client machines from the Net's viewpoint, anyway, and the router does allow me to direct certain types of traffic to specific machines. It also includes a firewall, which is nice. Most of the material I read recommended a hardware solution anyway, for security reasons, if not for performance, so I guess this will work out better. > First question: Can you ping the outside interface > of your FreeBSD system? It's IP address on the LAN, you mean? Yes. I just couldn't get Windows to route traffic to the outside world through the FreeBSD system. I wasn't sure whether it was Windows messing things up, or a configuration error in FreeBSD. Anyway, I guess that is a moot point now. Of course, now I have another question: How do I make sure that FreeBSD sees and picks up the router as the gateway to the outside world? Should I hard code this in a configuration file somewhere (which one)? Or will running something like routed work? I found that by setting the router to use DHCP (which my other machines ignore, but by doing this I cause the router to broadcast DNS information it receives over the PPTP link as well, apparently), and by running routed, it seems to fix the problem, although I don't understand why. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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