Re: Dialup via PPP/mgetty works, but can't get to anything beyond server

From: Alex (alex_at_totallynerd.com)
Date: 08/18/03 

Date: 18 Aug 2003 14:08:07 -0700

Clifford Kite <kite@see.signature.id> wrote in message news:<q9tqhb.ku.ln@corncob.inetport.com>...

> > I'm dialing in with Windows 2000 Pro, and it has the following when
> > ipconfig is entered:
> > Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
> > IP Address.......................:192.168.10.200
> > Subnet Mask......................:255.255.255.255
> > Default Gateway..................:192.168.10.200
>
> > I'm assuming this is fine for dialup, but most systems on my LAN have
> > 255.255.255.0 for subnet and 192.168.10.1 for gateway. If this needs
> > to change, where do I do it in PPP? This is a clean install of Red
> > Hat with all updates.
>
> It's not fine for dialup. The default gateway for the PPP connection on
> the windoze host should be the remote host's IP address, 192.168.10.23
> here. I don't do windoze and so can't say how to make it so.

Hi Clifford,

I'm not sure how to change this, but I'm back to the many pages of
how-to's I've printed out while trying to research a solution. Also,
I tried to dial-in with a Linux box (RH9) and I'm getting the same
results. I can connect to the server I'm dialing into, but nothing
beyond that (LAN or Internet). Here's the ifconfig results:

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
          inet addr:192.168.10.123 P-t-P:192.168.10.23
Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:6 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
          RX bytes:112 (112.0 b) TX bytes:112 (112.0 b)

I'm not sure if this helps. Also, in reading some posts by others, I
have a question. Do I need to add something in IPTABLES to allow ppp0
to have access beyond eth0?

Thanks,

Alex.

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