At work I administer an ethernet network of several dozen Win95 desktops
and a couple of Linux boxen running samba.
I'm trying to set up incoming PPP on an up-to-date Debian slink box. The
goal is for an employee to be able to dialup this box from her Win95
machine at home and be a "full citizen" of the network.
mgetty is installed, and I've followed the instructions for setting up
incoming PPP for Win95 machines that exist in both the /usr/doc/ppp/ and
/usr/doc/mgetty-doc/ directories.
I can dialup and connect fine. The problem is this:
The Win95 box sees only itself and the server---it can't reach any other
boxes on the ethernet network. The reverse is also true---the server can
ping the Win95 box when it's connected but none of the other boxes on
the network (either Win95 or Linux) can ping the dialup box.
First thought is a routing problem. Perusing the docs suggests that the
server, through the PPP 'proxyarp' option, will "pretend" to the other
machines on the network to be the dialup box. /var/log/ppp.log shows the
proxyarp option "took," but nonetheless, there is no communication
between the ppp0 and eth0 interfaces.
Suggestions? TIA
Cheers,
Pann
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