Re: PPP Network configuration
In your email to me, Paul Kautz, you wrote:
>
>
> I've been trying to set up PPP on two debian machines, and haven't
> quite got it working. The server has been running 0.93 for a while,
> and I just starting installing 1.1 on the client last week.
>
> I can start and maintain the connection, and I can reach the server
> from the client, but nowhere else. It has been suggested to me
> that the server kernel needs IP forwarding, but I haven't been
> able to find any documentation on this; is it a module, perhaps?
You need IP forwarding (configured in the kernel (make config)),
and most likely the proxyarp option in the server pppd instance.
> The client started its life on ethernet, and was taken off after
> getting debian files, etc. I believe I have removed all traces of
> the ethernet driver. I have tried moving the important parts
> of /etc/init.d/network to /etc/ppp/ip-up, and commenting them out
> from both, to no avail. My route table on the client shows a default
> route to the server alright, but I can't get past it.
>
> The client's ppp options include defaultroute and explicit
> local-ip:remote-ip, and the server's include proxyarp and
> local-ip:remote-ip.
That should do it.. just add ip forwarding to the kernel..
Tim
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