From owner-freebsd-net Thu Aug 12 9:53: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from www.esn.net (www.esn.net [206.154.14.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95A9C15855 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 09:52:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jbruner@esn.net) Received: from arthur (proxy.onlineinfoservices.com [207.59.99.12]) by www.esn.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA09998; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:03:34 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: From: "C. Jason Bruner" To: "Brian Somers" , Cc: Subject: RE: WAN via PPP with -alias Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:55:03 -0400 Message-ID: <000701bee4e3$6c0b94c0$14000032@arthur.onlineinfoservices.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 In-Reply-To: <199908121537.QAA04085@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org When I tried taking out the -alias, the satellite office was no longer able to reach the Internet (they are on a different subnet than the home office), and I still wasn't able to ping any machines besides the host machine. Are all of the items I mentioned below needed (routed, enable proxy, etc.) needed? Are there any that I missed? Thanks, Jason > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Brian Somers > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 11:38 AM > To: jbruner@esn.net > Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: WAN via PPP with -alias > > > Hi, > > If net access is provided via your home office, you should only do > the packet aliasing at that point - the connection between the two > offices should not be aliased. > > The two networks should then talk with a simple ``add > HISADDR'' on each side where is the remote network & mask > (something like ``1.2.3.4/24''). > > > Greetings all, > > > > I'm a FreeBSD newbie, and I would greatly appreciate any help > that anyone > > can give me with a problem I'm having. > > > > I've created a dial-up WAN connection between our satellite > office and our > > home office with two FreeBSD machines: 1 acting as a PPP client at the > > satellite office, and another acting as a PPP server in our home office. > > Because we have two different subnets, and access to the > Internet here, we > > set the PPP client up via a "PPP -auto -alias demand" type > connection so the > > satellite office could have Internet access, and it works great at the > > satellite office. Each computer using the PPP client as a > gateway can see > > the rest of our network, and consequently the Internet. No > problems at all > > there. > > > > However, I'd hoped to be able to use the same connection to > give our home > > office access to our satellite office by using the PPP server here as a > > gateway. No luck there. From even the PPP server (and any > machine using > > the PPP server as a gateway), I can see the PPP client machine, > but none of > > the other machines on the network. Traceroutes show everything > as timeouts > > past the PPP client. I've tried running routed on the PPP > client/gateway > > machine, but no luck. I imagine that everything is getting > loused up by the > > fact that I'm using the -alias option, but I'm not sure. > > > > I've got GATEWAY_ENABLED="YES" in the rc.conf, and tried using "enable > > proxy" in the ppp.conf, but doesn't seem to help. > > > > > > If anyone has any ideas about what I'm missing, I'd appreciate any > > assistance at all. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Jason > > > > jbruner@esn.net > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message