[pptp-server] proxy arp controlling internal LAN Address's
Charlie Brady
charlieb at e-smith.com
Wed Apr 18 18:01:26 CDT 2001
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Trevor Benson wrote:
> Here is the following configuration files for Poptop. I have reviewed and
> all the settings seem to be viable, can anyone point out why this would be
> responding for address's that are listed as local? The address's it tries
> to steal are 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.6 both are internal systems that are
> being accessed by VPN clients on the back end. Every few hours I have a
> burst of ARP traffic where this machine is proxying for the internal
> systems, not the external clients. Am I missing something in the config
> file that would point this out to me? Any assistance is appreciated, or
> pointers to documentation on how to configure proxy arp individually to lock
> it down. Thanks for any assistance ahead of time.
>
>
> ----/etc/ppp/options.pptp----
> lock
> debug
> auth
> +chap
> proxyarp
> ms-wins 192.168.1.6
>
> ----/etc/pptpd.conf----
> debug
> option /etc/ppp/options.pptp
> localip 192.168.1.1-64,192.168.1.116-254
Here is your problem. Replace this with just:
localip 192.168.1.x
where 192.168.1.x is the IP address of your server (192.168.1.1?).
You are confusing your PPTP server by allowing it to choose already-taken
IP addresses for the local end of connections it creates.
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