Re: ppp issues

["brian merrell" <bean@linuxmail.org>]

Sounds like NAT isn't working correctly.  Make sure you specify the range of IPs you want to send to--that was the first thing I thought of that could be going wrong.

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/nat.html

Brian Merrell




----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob McIlvaine" <suemac@empire.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 08:18:19 -0500
To: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: ppp issues

> Hi all,
> 
> Well, my ppp is now working after a fashion. It does on 
> demand dial up and gets the routes and DNS. I still need to 
> figure out the re-dial for no dial tone and other error handling.
> 
> I have to admit the main source of my problem was definitely 
> newbie stuff. I was in ppp interactive mode for debugging 
> and thanks to a reference in the FreeBSD handbook was 
> using ^Z to get to the command line. This was not 
> backgrounding as I was expecting, but suspending the ppp 
> process...so it would appear that things like ping and telnet 
> weren't working. Hopefully, this email will end up in the 
> archive and prevent someone from making the same 
> mistake. Thanks go to Alexander Farber for his patience.
> 
> Now, I have ppp "nat enable yes" and ip forwarding enabled. 
> But other PC's on my net can't see the DNS or ping an ip on 
> the web. At this point I'm trying to get out from a PC runing 
> WindozeXP and have set it's gateway to the internal ip of the 
> box running ppp and set it's dns pri & Sec. to those specified 
> by the isp (same setting as on the ppp box in resolv.conf).
> 
> This PC can get to the ppp box just fine, ping, etc.
> 
> What have I missed?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mac
> 
> Bob "Mac" McIlvaine
> 36 Parker Rd.
> Brookline, NH 03033
> Phone: 603-673-5861
> e-mail: suemac@empire.net
> 

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