Re: PPP Lan Bridge

2005-03-24 Thread Brian Somers
I would have thought that server: add 192.168.1.234/30 HISADDR in ppp.linkup should work... On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:00:03 -0600, "Chris Tusa at Linisys, LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, > > I put the solution in place and had great results. The ONLY issue that > I had, is with some rou

Re: PPP Lan Bridge

2005-03-23 Thread Chris Tusa at Linisys, LLC
OK, I put the solution in place and had great results. The ONLY issue that I had, is with some routing. In order for the rest of the network to communicate with the hosts at the maintainence shed, I had to set a 'static route'. I did so using DHCP, no problems there. However, I have a problem on

Re: PPP Lan Bridge

2005-03-22 Thread Chris Tusa at Linisys, LLC
Thanks Again, Just a quick note on your last reply, don't know whether this will make an impact: > I guess the missing bit is that the timeclock machine needs a special > routing table with 192.168.1.234/30 on it's crossed-over ethernet > interface and 192.168.1.233 as the default route, allowing

Re: PPP Lan Bridge

2005-03-22 Thread Brian Somers
Hi, The netmask for the rest of the network should remain the same so that each machine still thinks it's talking on a /24 (the ppp server is responding to ARPs so nobody can tell that the ppp server isn't actually just a multi-homed host). Only when a packet gets to the ppp server is it actually

Re: PPP Lan Bridge

2005-03-22 Thread Chris Tusa at Linisys, LLC
Brian, Very helpful. Someone on another forum suggsted the possibility of adjusting routing using either a routed daemon or setting static routes, but it seems that your method seems quicker. If I segment off the PPP side, do I need to change the subnet mask on the rest of the network as well? (

Re: PPP Lan Bridge

2005-03-22 Thread Brian Somers
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:27:58 -0600, "Chris Tusa at Linisys, LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I am an experienced BSD administator. I am currently implementing a > solution to connect two campus area buildings together using 2 > machines running FreeBSD 5.3 with 56K modems & PPP.

PPP Lan Bridge

2005-03-21 Thread Chris Tusa at Linisys, LLC
Greetings, I am an experienced BSD administator. I am currently implementing a solution to connect two campus area buildings together using 2 machines running FreeBSD 5.3 with 56K modems & PPP. I need some assistance as follows. I am trying to be verbose so as to provide a complete overview of wh