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Date:      Thu, 17 Apr 2003 23:47:53 +0200
From:      =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sten_Daniel_S=F8rsdal?= <sten.daniel.sorsdal@wan.no>
To:        "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>, <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Userland PPP/PPTP tunneling problem
Message-ID:  <0AF1BBDF1218F14E9B4CCE414744E70F07DE93@exchange.wanglobal.net>

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> >Say if client gets 192.168.1.2 when client connects, you=20
> need to manually
> >Enter: route -p add 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.0.0 192.168.1.2
> >On the windows client before connecting.
>=20
> But won't the Windows machine still get the broadcast address=20
> wrong? Seems
> to me that it'd send to 192.168.1.255 instead of 192.168.255.255.
>=20
> --Brett

It would send to 192.168.1.255
Broadcast and tunneling isnt a good combination, for NetBIOS use WINS.
For broadcast to even have the remote chance of working you have to use
proxy arp. To proxy arp you have to give the clients a range from the=20
LANs range and add 'enable proxy'.

- Sten



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