On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Robin Gilks wrote:
> I'm getting very confused by the way to set up IP masquerade
> when the ppp connection initiated by diald is assigned a dynamic
> address at connection time.
>
> It all seems to work on the local Linux box but other machines
> on the local (192.168.x.x) network don't get routed correctly due
> to the masquerade not having the correct address (I think).
Basically you can't because you don't know what to masquerade
*as* until the link comes up. Diald, in effect, sits on the
side of the interface away from the kernel so it sees what the
kernel is *sending* to the remote machine rather than what the
kernel *received* from the local network. Diald may delay or
drop packets while it brings the link up but it doesn't loop
them back through the kernel's routing/firewalling/masquerading etc.
I can envisage ways diald could be changed to, perhaps, work
with masqueraded dynamic addresses but they aren't simple changes
and aren't likely to happen in the immediate future.
Mike
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