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Date:      Wed, 21 Jan 1998 14:53:26 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PPP and IP forwarding 
Message-ID:  <199801211453.OAA14947@awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jan 1998 01:26:14 EST." <19980121012614.53293@numachi.com> 

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> On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 10:35:47PM +0000, Brian Somers wrote:
> > Have you only got one IP number ?  If so, you'll need to either run 
> > ppp with the -alias switch or ``alias enable yes'' in your ppp.conf 
> > file.
> 
> Nope, I got me a whole class C net here.  And I'm _not_ running
> routed, or any weird IP aliasing packages.
> 
> > > I'm *this* close to building the bpf device, to try to see if
> > > packets are even getting to the ppp process....
> > 
> > You can always ``set log +tcp/ip''.  I'm assuming you've got a recent 
> > version of ppp (see http://www.FreeBSD.org/~brian).
> 
> Actaully, I am trying a recent version: ppp-971105.  According to
> the manpage, the log option was supposed to be 'TCP/IP', which
> didn't seem to do anything.  But I tried your suggestion above
> [lower case], and got some results:

It can be upper or lower case......

> My netblock is 198.175.254.0.  My gateway is, as by convention,
> 198.175.254.1.  I tried telnetting out from another of my boxes
> (198.175.254.7) offsite, which failed with a timeout.
> 
> # grep 254.7 /var/log/ppp.log
> Jan 21 01:11:05 numachi ppp[12123]: TCP/IP: OUT TCP: 198.175.254.7:4714 ---> 199.0.65.125:23 SYN  seq:21e2ce00  ack:0 (0/40)
> Jan 21 01:11:11 numachi ppp[12123]: TCP/IP: OUT TCP: 198.175.254.7:4714 ---> 199.0.65.125:23 SYN  seq:21e2ce00  ack:0 (0/40)
> Jan 21 01:11:23 numachi ppp[12123]: TCP/IP: OUT TCP: 198.175.254.7:4714 ---> 199.0.65.125:23 SYN  seq:21e2ce00  ack:0 (0/40)
> Jan 21 01:11:47 numachi ppp[12123]: TCP/IP: OUT TCP: 198.175.254.7:4714 ---> 199.0.65.125:23 SYN  seq:21e2ce00  ack:0 (0/40)

Ah - this is the result of the `set log +tcp/ip' :-)

> It _looks_ to me that my PPP process _is_ getting the packets, but
> never sees anything come back.  I'll poke at my ISP to double-check
> thier routing, but if have any further suggestions, by all means,
> please send 'em down...

Yep.  Looks like a problem on their side.

> -- 
> Brian Reichert			          		  reichert@numachi.com
> 37 Crystal Ave. #303
> Derry NH 03038-1713 USA			Intel architecture: the left-hand path

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....





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