aDSL Router

["Rob Hines Jr." <rhines_(_at_)_joboptions_(_dot_)_com>]

Okay, I admit it, I give up. I recently built an OpenBSD box, to be used
as a router for an aDSL connection. The aDSL modem connects to the
switch, then a machine must connect to the modem, and that machine is
given an IP via DHCP. I have the OpenBSD machine connecting to the
internet beautifully, and so far as I can tell, the 3com Etherlink IIIs
that I am using are also working fine (pingable, link lights are on),
but I have yet to get anything to work on the secondary interface.

This is the setup

Internet ---> aDSL modem w/ Real IP ---> ep2 (Etherlink card 1) w/ Real
IP via DHCP

[OpenBSD Box]
                                                                    ep3
(Etherlink card 2) w/ 192.168.10.1 IP ---> Internal Network

(dhcpd bound to ep3 to farm out IPs)

I followed all the instructions verbatim from the Network FAQ
(http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html) and nothing happens through ep3,
no log entry, nothing.

I wanted to run dhcpd on ep3 to farm our info to internal clients, but
so far, ep3 won't even answer a ping. When I boot up my Win2K machine
setup appropriately to obtain IP automatically, I get a 164.254.233.xxx
address from some undiscernable source, and when I set the gateway and
IP manually, I get nothing.

With the last set of rules in place from the FAQ (corrected for my
setup), I could not even telnet our from console to any site by name. It
would allow me to telnet to an IP, but not a name.

The only log entry I've found that seems pertinant to my problems are
the DHCP CLIENT entries when the modem assigns the ip to ep2. Nothing
else shows up.No firewall logging, no dhcpd requests, etc.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can get this working?

Rob

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Rob Hines Jr.