Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:06:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: charlespeters@chickenbean.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with dial-out gateway - ppp Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808061303110.28098-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <000101bdbf0c$6da84920$20710418@ci1000971-c.sptnbrg1.sc.home.c om>
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On Mon, 3 Aug 1998 charlespeters@chickenbean.com wrote: > I have set up a dialout gateway using freebsd 2.2.6, but I am having some > problems that I don't seem to be able to solve. > > Here is the setup: > > Freebsd 2.2.6 gateway with: > > 1 network card configured as 192.168.0.1 > 1 internal modem 56K - /dev/cuaa1 (com2) > > Several Win95 computers with tcp/ip addresses set as follows: > 192.168.0.43 > 192.168.0.40 > 192.168.0.48 > ... > > Default gateway is set to 192.168.0.1, and dns is set to the ISP's DNS > servers. This configuration works fine. > > I am able to ping the win95 boxes from the freebsd box, and I am able to > ping the freebsd box from all win95 boxes. > > The goal is to allow internet access to all win95 computers via the freebsd > gateway machine. When it is working, I am able to ping all internet > addresses from the win95 boxes (ie. ping ftp.cdrom.com works fine), but I > cannot ping the same internet address from the freebsd gateway box. Routing difficulty, perhaps? > I would like to establish a ppp connection to the ISP, and keep the > connection alive for 10 mins after the last data is transmitted (to speed up > access for users who leave their desks for a few minutes, and then come back > to continue browsing or checking/sending email). It seems to me like the > system dials up the ISP as soon as the connection is lost. This seems > wasteful. Are you running ppp in -ddial or -auto mode? > Also, I often (once or twice daily) have to shutdown -r now and then during > the reboot, turn of the power for a few seconds to reset the modem. This is > also a pain in the ass, as I am not always there to reset the machine for my > users. The system works fine for our application when it works, but it > locks up too often. This is why External Modems are Good. > On the bsd gateway, running ifconfig -a yields the following result: > > de0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 > ether 00:c0:f0:30:86:f6 > media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP) status: active > lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>mtu 1500 > tun0: flags=8051 <UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST>mtu 1500 > inet 206.139.129.158 --> 206.139.129.5 netmask 0xffffff00 > sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST>mtu 552 > ppp0: flags= 8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST>mtu 1500 > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST>mtu 16384 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 > > > When I run netstat on the bsd-gateway, the first two lines displayed are as > follows: > > tcp 0 0 192.168.0.1.telnet 192.168.0.42.1039 ESTABLISHED > tcp 0 0 206.139.129.141.telnet 24.4.113.32.1025 ESTABLISHED > > I am telnetted into the computer from 192.168.0.48, and was also telnetted > into the computer from 24.4.113.32. The freebsd boxes ppp ip address was > 206.139.129.141. That connection has been lost for at least an hour now, > but netstat still says that it is established. It'll die eventually, probably the next time you try to telnet to that box. I'm interested in seeing the output of netstat -rn... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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