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Date:      Sat, 14 Feb 1998 21:12:28 -0800
From:      Phil Staub <phils@casa.staub.net>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   ppp -alias failure
Message-ID:  <199802150512.VAA06781@casa.staub.net>

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Does anybody know of a problem where ppp fails to properly alias
outgoing packets?

I've got three machines sitting on net 192.168.10 via ethernet behind
a dual-homed host gateway machine (also on 192.168.10) which is
connected to my ISP via ppp -alias. On the gateway machine, I monitor
the traffic on the tun0 link with "tcpdump -e -l -i tun0".

Things are usually OK: I access the internet from one of the machines
on the private net, and I see packets to and from the gateway
machine on tcpdump. 

However, under some circumstances that I haven't quite pinned down
yet, I start seeing some of my 192.168.10 addresses showing up on the
tun0 interface, in both source and destination varieties. This sounds
like a Bad Thing to me. 

So far the three things that seem to precipitate this behavior are
smtp, nntp and http packets. Not all of them, though.

What's puzzling is that when this happens, I apparently start getting
timeouts, then packets sometimes routed to the correct (gateway) ip
address, and sometimes to the ones behind the gateway.

If it's of any importance, I *have* made some recent nameserver
changes, but I'm not sure how that could be involved. Can anyone tell
me what's going on here and what to do about it?

Thanks,
Phil


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