Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 20:16:48 -0400 From: "Harry Patterson" <harry@visiontm.com> To: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PPPD and Proxyarp Message-ID: <01bd7884$42a70460$055da8c0@hp.visiontm.com>
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I just wanted to thank John Kelly and Brian Summers for helping me with my pppd problems. The answer to having my local net see the Internet through pppd was definitely in my incorrect use of proxyarp when I should have been using natd. Everything is now working perfectly. Thanks again Harry Patterson >>I know the 192.168 is reserved for Intranet's only, that's why I am using >>them on the ethernet and trying to use PPPD to obtain the Internet >>addresses. PPPD man pages say you can do it this way and the handbook >>provides almost this exact example using PPP. My understanding is that >>proxyarp is supposed to provide this "aliasing" so that the local net can >>use the PPPD connection. > >NO! That is not the purpose of proxyarp! You must use NATD to do >what you're trying to do. > >I use proxyarp to make some of my downstream modem clients look like >they're on my local ethernet, so they can use static IP addresses >which belong to my ethernet network number. That's one purpose of >proxyarp, but it has nothing to do with network address translation >where 192.168.x.x hosts are allowed to talk on the Internet. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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