[ale] ppp from Windows95 to Linux

Christopher Fowler cfowler at www.topform.com
Tue Aug 13 15:44:08 EDT 1996


> Remaining problem:
> ------------------
> Although I can connect and establish a ppp session with the Linux server, 
> I can only see myself and the Linux server when I go out and ping 
> around.  W95 is setup to use the default gateway of the host (i.e. the 
> Linux server), but it doesn't seem to be doing this.  I've tried 
> establishing  gateways statically on the Windows 95 machine (client) to 
> point to both the Linux server or the Linux server's default gateway, 
> but I still can't see beyond the Linux server.  The script I'm running on 
> the Linux side upon login is:
> 
>

I have the same problem on newer kernels.  What is going on it pppd is not
adding and arp entry to match your ip address with it's own hardware address 
and this causes a problem to fix this this is what I've done.

#!/bin/sh
/sbin/arp -s 206.142.5.4 00:A0:24:37:06:DE pub

This is a crappy work arounf and if everyone else knows how to fix please tell
me.  It is not a setting in the kernel because diplogin does this correctly.
Also 1.3.85 will not set the arp entry for dip or pppd either.  There is no
feature in the kernel under 'make config' for proxy arp.  there is reverse arp
there is no assume subnets are local either.


Thanks,
Christopher Fowler
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