From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 9 18:43:36 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED53916A420 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 18:43:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gemini@sicilia.mv.com) Received: from mercury.mv.net (mercury.mv.net [199.125.85.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7F9043D48 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 18:43:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gemini@sicilia.mv.com) Received: (qmail 5156 invoked from network); 9 Nov 2005 13:43:33 -0500 Received: from c-24-34-84-103.hsd1.nh.comcast.net (HELO localhost.localdomain) (sicilia-ge@24.34.84.103) by mercury.mv.net with SMTP; 9 Nov 2005 13:43:33 -0500 X-Peer-Info: remote-ip 24.34.84.103 local-ip 199.125.85.40 local-name mercury.mv.net X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:41:38 -0500 (EST) From: gemini@sicilia.mv.com To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20051109184334.D7F9043D48@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Subject: (4.9-stable) Outgoing ppp through Shiva Lanrover X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gemini@sicilia.mv.com List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:43:37 -0000 Mmm Hello, I'm not an ISP, but my ISP does use some variety of BSD and I seem to have a non-trivial question about connecting to them from my 4.9-stable pc. Hopefully this is an appropriate list. I'm also not an networking expert, so please be gentle. I share a broadband connection through a cable router, with my local ip address being in the 10.0.0.x range. This works properly, however I also have my own dial-up ISP which I need to connect to occasionally. I would highly prefer to handle this dial-out ppp with a shared Shiva Lanrover 8e terminal/modem server (firmware 4.54) On the lan side, the Shiva is able to handle both tcpip and ipx connections. It is able to initiate and handle an outgoing ppp modem connection using it's "lan-to-lan connect" feature. This partly works. The problems are that (1) The Shiva is not a router, it only bridges. Everything on the lan-side goes straight through with no NAT. (2) My dial-up ISP only assigns dynamic ip addresses, from two very different address pools. I can dial out and successfully connect, and the Shiva is assigned an ip address, but when I try to use the connection, my ISP see traffic with wrong ip addresses, so they won't touch the packets. The only solution I can think of, is to arrange for a connection from my PC to the Shiva which doesn't involve ip addresses, so that the Shiva just uses the address it was assigned by my ISP. Perhaps IPX? But I couldn't find anything in the handbook about setting up non-tcpip networking. Thank you. Any ideas or advice this list can provide will be much appreciated. Ps, I do realize a router would be recommended, to make this a truely sharable setup. And I do have a spare Cisco 2500, but on it's outside port it would run into the same problem connecting to the Shiva as a single pc would. The 2500's built-in serial port is inadequate for dial-out use. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: gemini@sicilia.mv.com Date: 09-Nov-2005 Time: 12:24:18 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------