Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Apr 1998 21:28:41 -0400 (EDT) | From | James Mastros <> | Subject | Re: PPP dialin (pppd) not routing some of our IPs. Help! |
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On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Tony Toole wrote: > Hello there, we are a small ISP and are moving from NT to Linux. We have > some very frustrating problems with PPP dialin (via pppd) and need some > assistance. > > We have a class 'C' network, currently allocating 16 IPs to the new Linux > box, which will be used for dialin lines. (Via an Equinox modem pool, which > works great) > The problem we are having is that some of our IPs are not being routed when > we dial into them, using Win95's TCP/IP dialout. (IE. We can't ping the > net, only the host dialin server). [rest snipped]
Have you enabled IP forwarding? If not, do echo "1" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forwarding (ip_forward on some versions) to enable it. (Note: You also need to say "y" to the "IP: advanced router" question in the kernel config. If you're not using self-compiled kernels, you should be -- I'm guessing that you're going to want to play with the network configuration quite a bit. <G>)
-=- James Mastros
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