Hi,
I'm on this list for a while now, but never came across this problem or it's
solution. So I thought I give it a shot and ask.
I have a small homebrewed network with one machine as 'server' for demand
dialing (with pppd of course) and ip_masquerading setup, and two other
machines connected to it (both running linux/windows). The idea is that I
can access the web from any machine on the network, without having to start
the ppp connection manually from the server.
So far, I'm able to start demand dialing and actually use it from the server
machine (ping, telnet, etc. get the modem to dial and make the connection).
Yet, the 'client' machines are not able motivate the modem to dial and
establish the connection. Even worse, they can't event connect to the server
machine! If I try to telnet to the server machine from a client, telnet
starts to look for the host but can't find it.
Strangely though, if I have a ppp connection to my ISP, my 'clients' are
able to telnet into the local 'server'. Also, I can access the web from any
machine without problem (ip_masquerading works just fine).
My setup:
- all machines run kernel 2.0.35 (slackware 3.6 I think) or windows95
- the server run pppd 2.3.7.
- the gateway for the clients is my 'server' machine
- the 'server' does not have a gateway specified
- the host.conf file contains the following (on all machines):
order: hosts, bind
multi on
- all the hosts are in the hosts file
- I'm using a class C network (192.169.0.*)
- The ip_masquerading is setup according to the IP-masquerading HOWTO
Does anybody has an idea what I'm doing wrong? Thanks for any help or info,
Chris
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