Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:41:38 -0500 (EST) From: gemini@sicilia.mv.com To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: (4.9-stable) Outgoing ppp through Shiva Lanrover Message-ID: <20051109184334.D7F9043D48@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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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.
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