Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:06:21 -0600 From: "Chris Tusa at Linisys, LLC" <linisys@gmail.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP Lan Bridge Message-ID: <30831386050322120630eaf58d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050322122924.71b7c46a@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: <3083138605032116273eacd0f7@mail.gmail.com> <20050322122924.71b7c46a@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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Brian, Very helpful. Someone on another forum suggsted the possibility of adjusting routing using either a routed daemon or setting static routes, but it seems that your method seems quicker. If I segment off the PPP side, do I need to change the subnet mask on the rest of the network as well? (I should know this!) -- Chris > The issue is that 192.168.1.0/24 machines have to know to route > 192.168.2.0/24 stuff through 192.168.1.230, or else the timeclock > machine needs some sort of presence on 192.168.1.0/24. > > This can be done by allocating a segment of 192.168.1.0/24 to the ppp > client and adding ``enable proxyall'' to the ppp server config. > > server: > enable proxyall > set ifaddr 192.168.1.230 192.168.1.232/30 > > client: > set ifaddr 192.168.1.233 192.168.1.230 > > and then setting the addresses on the crossover cable to 192.168.1.233 > and 192.168.1.234. > > The ``enable proxyall'' bit tells ppp to create proxy arp entries for > all of 192.168.1.232/30 (except for .232 and .235), allowing everything > else on 192.168.1.0/24 to think it's talking directly to these machines. > > -- > Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@FreeBSD.org> > -- Chris Tusa linisys@gmail.com http://people.linisys.com/ctusa Buy books from my Half.com inventory: http://half.ebay.com/shops/shops.jsp?seller_id=1691584
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