Does this "fake slip connection" happen to correspond to the
address for "sl0" when you run ifconfig?
-JMS
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From: Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, September 24, 1998 1:46 AM
Subject: [masq] Internal address showing up outside
>I set up masquerading and diald on a friend's computer recently. A little
while
>ago I did a netstat on a mail server that I administer, and saw a
connection to
>a foreign address of 192.168.0.253. This connection was from my friend's
>masquerading box, and 192.168.0.253 is what I used for one of the addresses
>that diald employs for the fake SLIP connection that it maintains when the
PPP
>connection isn't up.
>
>So the question is: how the hell did a packet with that address get itself
out
>of the box? This doesn't always occur with his setup -- in fact it normally
>doesn't.
>
>His setup is pretty generic, with minimal forwarding rules -- just the
default
>deny policy and the rule to masquerade his 192.168.0.0 network. diald is
set up
>to use 192.168.0.253 and 254 for its fake SLIP connection.
>
>The only explanation I can conceive of is that diald (or pppd) isn't
setting
>the local IP (which is dynamically supplied by the ISP) correctly when the
>connection comes up, and that this may be a result of some confusion about
the
>fake SLIP addresses being in the same network as his internal class C (this
is
>the first time I set up diald, and this didn't occur to me at the time).
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Chris
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