Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:17:36 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Sten Daniel Sørsdal <sten.daniel.sorsdal@wan.no>, <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Userland PPP/PPTP tunneling problem Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030418111623.02819bd0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <0AF1BBDF1218F14E9B4CCE414744E70F07DE93@exchange.wanglobal. net>
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At 03:47 PM 4/17/2003, Sten Daniel Sørsdal wrote: >> >Say if client gets 192.168.1.2 when client connects, you >> 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. >> >> But won't the Windows machine still get the broadcast address >> wrong? Seems >> to me that it'd send to 192.168.1.255 instead of 192.168.255.255. >> >> --Brett > >It would send to 192.168.1.255 Yep, and miss the boat. >Broadcast and tunneling isnt a good combination, Yes, but broadcast is needed for ARP. To tunnel effectively, you need to be able to ARP (for example) the printer on the LAN you're tunneling into. --Brett
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