Re: Dialup Problem

From: Jason Kayle (KayleJ_at_myrealbox.com)
Date: 12/03/03 

Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:12:15 +1300

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 14:15:30 +0000 (UTC), efflandt@xnet.com (David
Efflandt) wrote:

>On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 16:16:45 +1300, Jason Kayle <KayleJ@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have the following dialup problem.
>> I have a Mandrake 9.1 machine sitting on a Novell LAN. I would like to
>> be able to dial into this machine. I have used Webmin to set up mgetty
>> and can dial in successfully. From my home I can telnet to the Linux
>> machine and Ping the Linux machine but cannot ping any other machine
>> on the Lan. The Linux machine gets its IP address from the Novell DHCP
>> server. The IP address allocatted to the remote machine is not in use
>> by another machine.
>> I am sure that there is a basic answer to this but I am a bit of a
>> newbe and can't seem to work it out. Any help would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>
>Beside needing to have ip_forward enabled on the server, you need to make
>sure that the server does not use any 'defaultroute' options for the
>dialin ppp connection. If the remote IP is on the same network, the server
>should also probably use its ethernet IP as local IP for ppp and
>'proxyarp' option, but that might be problematic if its ethernet IP is
>dynamic. If running a firewall (whether you know it or not) that may need
>to be properly configured for the dialin.
>
>The remote dialin client should use defaultroute pppd option for pppd
>(unless it is only to connect to your local network and has a proper
>network route). If its IP is in the same network as your LAN it should be
>outside of DHCP assigned range.
>
Yes I have enabled IP forwarding (sorry I should have mentioned that).
I will have a go at the rest, not that I understand it all, so it will
mean some reading.

Thanks

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