Hi All,
I am having problems with the routing once a PPP connection is
established. I am using RedHat 6.0 on the server, kernel version 2.2.8,
ppp version 2.3.8, mgetty version 1.1.20. Authentication takes place
successfully, IP forwarding is enabled, I am able to ping the ppp
server, and i'm able to ping anything on the XX subnet (the server is on
the XX subnet as well). There is nothing in the logs to indicate any
kind of routing error but I can't reach the router from the ppp client.
The resulting routing table after the ppp link is established is:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
134.153.XX.yy * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
eth0
134.153.XX.zz * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
ppp0
134.153.XX.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0
lo
default routerXX-virtua 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
eth0
Which looks fine to me.
I am dialing in with a Windows 98 machine with a configuration that
works flawlessly on our other ppp server. Windows 98 recognizes itself
as the gateway which I see as a problem but can't seem to figure out why
it happens. I have a feeling that this is a significant symptom of the
problem but I don't know what it is related to. I have Windows set to
use the default gateway on the network and pppd is assigning the IP and
DNS addresses correctly. I confirmed this with winipcfg after the ppp
connection was established. This configuration works on our other PPP
server and the configuration is exactly the same except the versions of
the software (RH 5.2, ppp 2.3.5 and mgetty 1.1.14).
Some questions:
1. Has anyone had a similar problem and if so, how was it resolved?
2. Can anyone shed some light on this particular problem?
3. I can't see a way to make pppd assign a gateway address for the
client to use but is there some way to do this? The only related item
that I found in the manpage is defaultroute but that is designed to be
used by a machine running pppd as a client, not by the server.
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Gary Piercey ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Systems Programmer
Dept. of Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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