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Date:      Fri, 7 Jun 2002 17:47:54 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "admin" <lane@cd-solutions.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   How to automatically route a selected IP via ppp and all others via default route
Message-ID:  <200206072247.g57MlsD57466@joeandlane.com>

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I'm running Freebsd 4.5 as a gateway for NT,  Windows 98, and an AS/400.  
Freebsd handles dhcp, dns, nat, etc.

From time to time I have to connect my AS/400 to remote sites.  This works fine 
as long as the site is on the internet.  But when I have to dial out (using ppp 
on Freebsd) I cannot connect the AS/400 to the remote site.  I *can* connect to 
the remote site directly from Freebsd and I *can* connect from the Windoze 
boxes *after* I type "route add <remote as/400 ip> <freebsd gateway ip>".

As I said, Freebsd handles dhcp.  It assigns addresses in the range 192.168.1.5 
to 192.168.1.200 using netmask 255.255.255.0.

From the windoze boxes I can use IPCONFIG or WINIPCFG to verify the ip address 
and the netmask.  In all cases they correspond with /var/db/dhcpd.leases and in 
all cases I have unfettered access to the internet via my freebsd gateway (who 
lives at 192.168.1.1).

dhcp uses static configuration for the AS/400 because he wants to be a dhcp 
server but not a client.  I am able to connect to internet sites using telnet 
and ftp from the AS/400.

The ppp.conf script is vanilla, except for these two lines, which seem to be 
required for the particular connection that is troubling me:

 add 192.168.27.27 HISADDR
 add 192.168.28.1 HISADDR            

His router is 192.168.28.1 and the target sysmem is at 192.168.27.27.

It seems like the Windows boxes have to be reminded that the default route is 
the same route they should take for this particular address.  Unfortunately 
there is no clear way to remind the AS/400 that he should do the same.

I appreciate any suggestions that you may have.

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