[pptp-server] pinging problem

Murali K. Vemuri muralivemuri at multitech.co.in
Thu Dec 20 22:24:58 CST 2001


Not this george!

i have put 1 in the place of 0 in the file
 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward.

and ...........YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
REGD
murali

George Vieira wrote:

> Oh I get it.. the typo in your first post confused me (192.168.1.4.6
> etc...)This is what you need to check...The pptp client, type netstat
> -rn (that's R N and not M) and check if the client has a route for the
> whole network... probably not.. this is your main problem..If your not
> sure type this in MSDOS:route add -p 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0
> 192.168.1.241this will tell the client VPN that to get to the whole
> network of 192.168.1.X to go via 192.168.1.241 (VPN server)..try
> that...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murali K. Vemuri [mailto:muralivemuri at multitech.co.in]
> Sent: Friday, 21 December, 2001 1:24 PM
> To: George Vieira
> Cc: Steve at SteveCowles.com; pptplist
> Subject: Re: [pptp-server] pinging problem
> NO.............
> i have two ethernet cards and eth0 has the ip address 192.168.1.149
> and the eth1 has 192.168.4.6
> 192.168.1.246 is PPP local ip
> murali
> George Vieira wrote:
>
>> Um, If I'm reading this right you have 2 ethernet cards ETH0 and
>> ETH1 and BOTH are on the same subnet (192.168.1.149 ,
>> 192.168.1.46?)Isn't this going to complicate things a bit? How it
>> the client reaching the PPTP server.. I'm confused...
>>
>> thanks,
>> George Vieira
>> Systems Manager
>> Citadel Computer Systems P/L
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Murali K. Vemuri [mailto:muralivemuri at multitech.co.in]
>> Sent: Friday, 21 December 2001 1:22 AM
>> To: Steve at SteveCowles.com
>> Cc: pptplist
>> Subject: [pptp-server] pinging problem
>> well.........
>>
>> to start with, i have a win98 client.
>>
>> he connects to a RAS over PPP
>>
>> RAS gives him 192.168.4.2 and himself has the address 192.168.4.10
>>
>> and beyond him, i have a pptp server with eth1 address 192.168.1.4.6
>>
>> he assigns 192.168.1.246 to the client and himself gets 192.168.1.241.
>>
>> i find the message "found eth0 for proxy arp" in /var/log/messages.
>>
>> and the eth0 address is 192.168.1.149
>>
>> but still the win98 client is not able to ping any ip address beyond 149.
>>
>> any ideas........?
>>
>> --
>> regards & thanks for your time,
>>
>> Murali Krishna Vemuri
>>
>>
>
> --
> regards & thanks for your time,
>
> Murali Krishna Vemuri
>
>

--
regards & thanks for your time,

Murali Krishna Vemuri


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