[pptp-server] Netmask woes... Last thing I'm sure.

Giulio Orsero giulioo at pobox.com
Thu Feb 22 11:48:11 CST 2001


On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 05:01:34 -0700, you wrote:

>However, my client's IP address always shows a netmask of 255.255.255.0 
>Now, after the client connected, I could never, ever see any Windoze 
>machines, including my Linux Samba server with WINS, DNS, remote announce, 
>This is because when I check the ppp0 interface with "ifconfig" the ppp0 
>interface always shows a netmask of 255.255.255.255.  Of course this is 
I think the problem is another one; the netmask that counts is the one
you see on the win9x pc doing run->winipcfg, the ppp0 netmask is not the
problem.

>I can see neither of these machines, or any other nodes for that matter.
>I can connect remotely from other Windoze machines.
So you can ping the machine through vpn, but cannot use netbios?
If you do "find computer" using the ip address, do you find it?

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giulioo at pobox.com



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