Clifford Kite wrote:
>
> On Thu, 20 May 1999, Gary Piercey wrote:
>
> |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.
>
> Try the pppd option proxy_arp. For the 2.2.x kernel series you may also
> need to do
>
> echo -n 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/ppp0/proxy_arp
Thanks Clifford. This worked. I was using the proxyarp option to pppd
but proxy arp wasn't enabled for the ppp0 device.
Thanks to everyone who sent suggestions.
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Gary Piercey ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Systems Programmer
Dept. of Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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