Thanks for your help. I will try this later this afternoon and let you know. I think I understand a bit more about routing and networks now. On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 14:37:09 +0200 Abraham van der Merwe <abz@frogfoot.net> wrote: > Hi Roch?! > > > > On your home gateway's eth0 assign 192.168.2.10 and on your office's > > > side, assign 192.168.1.10 to eth1. Then use unnumbered ppp on both > > > sides and make sure that ip forwarding is enabled on the office gw. > > > > I don't quite follow how to set up unnumbered ppp. Should I just omit > > the local_ip:remote_ip in my ppp options file at home? > > That is correct. See, ppp is a point-to-point protocol, so traffic can only > go in two directions anyway, so you can tell ppp not to use any kind of > layer 3 routing and just send packets to the other side automatically. > > In Linux you do that by just specifying local_ip:remote_ip on the server > side and : on the client side. > > > > Of course, you probably have /etc/ppp/* with the pon/poff scripts in > > > which case you need to add above to your /etc/ppp/peers/* scripts > > > > At the moment I have no scripts in place - I'm doing it manually to see > > what works and what I should eventually put in the scripts. I only have > > /etc/ppp/options on both sides. > > Ok, so this (otoh so don't blame me if it doesn't work *g*) in your inittab > should do the job: > > ------------< snip <------< snip <------< snip <------------ > # At office > S0:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 115200 modem noauth crtscts persist \ > 192.168.1.10:192.168.2.10 nodetach >>/var/log/leased.log > > # At home > S0:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 115200 noauth lock debug crtscts > defaultroute persist nodetach >>/var/log/leased.log > ------------< snip <------< snip <------< snip <------------ > > -- > > Regards > Abraham > > A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. > -- Thomas Jefferson > > ___________________________________________________ > Abraham vd Merwe [ZR1BBQ] - Frogfoot Networks > P.O. Box 3472, Matieland, Stellenbosch, 7602 > Cell: +27 82 565 4451 Http: http://www.frogfoot.net > Email: abz@frogfoot.net > > -- Roché Compaan Upfront Systems http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
