[pptp-server] ARP Binding ?!?

[Jerry Vonau]

Timothy:

What is your local ip & remote ip set to in the pptpd.conf file?
Should be from the private lan address range.

Jerry Vonau

> Timothy Findlay wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've got poptop all installed (it's my second time around - it used to work a
> treat on the original server) and so far so good. It logs in and auth's me ok,
> and I can ping/telnet to my VPN server box, but I cant touch the Network
> behind it. The network looks a little like...
> 
> Road Warrior
> 203.x.x.x (Live IP) : ppp0
>        |
>        |
> 203.x.x.x (Live IP) : eth0
> VPN / Firewall Gateway
> 128.1.x.x (Private IP) : eth1
>        |
>        |
> 128.1.x.x (Private Network)
> Private Network
> 
> I have "proxy-arp" in my options file and a 1 in
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward, but according to the messages file (when a
> connection is established) it binds proxy arp to eth0!!
> 
> I had a hunt around under /proc/sys/net/conf/eth0 and saw the proxy-arp file
> thing, which was 0 so I cat'd a 1 to it and everything started working
> (yippie!) but I know this isn't really the right way to be doing things. I
> know as soon as I reboot these settings will re-set (erk!) ... I'm running
> Redhat 7.2 ... does anyone know where I should set the proxy-arp thing
> properly ??
> 
> Any thoughts greatly appreciated.
> 
> Tim.
> 
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