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From: darrylo@sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
Subject: Proxy arp & PPP w/FreeBSD 1.1.5.1?
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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 00:13:13 GMT
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Does anyone have proxy arp working with PPP in FreeBSD 1.1.5.1?
Using PPP, I've got a FreeBSD system at home connected (via modems) to
another FreeBSD at work connected up to a LAN. Once I've got the two
FreeBSD systems connected via PPP, I can ping, telnet, rlogin,
etc. between the two machines, but I cannot access other systems on the
LAN from my home PC (and vice-versa). The proxyarp command in pppd
doesn't seem to do anything, and so I'm explicitly issuing an "arp -s"
command (on the FreeBSD system at work connected to both the modem and
the LAN). However, the work FreeBSD system does not seem to be routing
the packets back to my home FreeBSD system. It's not a netmask problem,
and I tried recompiling the kernels with the GATEWAY option, but nothing
helps. The "arp -s" does seem to be working, as other systems on the
LAN do respond to it (I checked via "arp -a" on these systems).
Any suggestions?
[ As a side note, I also tried using SLIP, but was unable to get it to
work. While ping works between the two systems, strangely enough,
telnet, rlogin, etc. do not. It seems that most packets received by my
home FreeBSD system contain "errors" -- "Ierrs" from "netstat -i" just
goes up and up. Outgoing packets seem to be fine (from my home system),
but incoming packets are somehow "garbled". This looks like a flow
control problem, but it's not -- both modems have hardware flow control
enabled, and crtscts is enabled at both ends. Weird. Anyway, I'd
rather have PPP than SLIP, and so I'm not going to spend any more time
on it. ]
Thanks,
-- Darryl Okahata
Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com
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