Re: dialin server not routing/forwarding???

[Milen Dimitrov <milend@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for the post!
I think I found what was the problem!

My dialin server had 2 network cards (2 network interfaces eth0 and eth1)
I removed eth1 and it worked!

Thanks again!

Edward wrote:

> Milen Dimitrov wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I just setup a dialin server on RedHat 9.
> > Dial in server is a member of LAN with common gateway 192.168.1.1.
> > I can browse internet from dial-in server and I can ping any other PC 
> > in the LAN.
> >
> >  From a windows PC i can dial in and connect to the server but I 
> > cannot browse Internet.
> > When connected to the dial-in server my windows PC has the following 
> > ipsettings and I cannot ping
> > any other PC in the LAN except dial in server (192.168.1.10) I'm 
> > connected to:
> > c:\>ipconfig /all
> > PPP adapter test2PPP:
> >        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
> >        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface
> >        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-53-45-00-00-00
> >        DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
> >        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.171
> >        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
> >        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.171
> >        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.2
> >                                                      192.168.1.3
> >
> > As you see the IP and the gateway for my windows PC are the same - 
> > 192.168.1.171. Is this correct?
> >
> > My guess is that the linux Dial-in server doesn't route/forward 
> > packets from PPP  to the rest of the LAN?
> > How I can prove if it's true or not?
> > Which config files/log files to be check out?
> > Which tools I can use to debug it?
> >
> > Thank you for the help in advance!
> > Milen
> > ==================================
> > Please see some of config files bellow:
> > 1. /etc/sysctl.conf
> > contains the line:
> > --------------------------
> > net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
> > --------------------------
> > so cat /proc/sys/net/ip4fw/ip_forward
> > shows "1"
> >
> > /etc/ppp/options
> > contains:
> > -----------------------
> > -detach
> > asyncmap 0
> > netmask 255.255.255.0
> > proxyarp
> > lock
> > crtscts
> > modem
> > noauth
> > ms-dns 192.168.1.1
> > ms-dns 192.168.1.1
> > ---------------------
> >
> > /etc/ppp/options.ttyS0
> > contains:
> > -----------------------
> > 192.168.1.10:192.168.1.171
> > -----------------------
>
> I *THINK* you need to specify 'defaultroute' in your /etc/ppp/options 
> file to allow the ppp connection to change the computers default route 
> to run through your modem ppp connection.
>
> check what 'route -n' gives you while you're connected.
>
> Regards,
> Ed.



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