Re: Dialin Server - Connects but no net activity. Any pointers?

From: Clifford Kite (kite_at_see.signature.id)
Date: 10/09/03 

Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 08:18:22 -0500

Warren Smith <warren@connect4.com.au> wrote:

> I'm trying to setup a dialin server on a redhat 7.3 box that sits
> on our network. The machine gets internet connection by a defaultroute
> on a gateway machine that NATs the machines on the 192.168.0.x LAN.

There is one other thing that might be causing a problem, separate
from the previously mentioned PAP authorization. If this is true NAT,
and not SNAT or masquerade, then I suspect you'll have to provide a
"client identifier" for the host dialing in since it doesn't have a MAC
address. This is mentioned in RFC 2131, and further described in RFC
1533. I have no idea whether Linux DHCP supports client-identifiers. 

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