Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:46:18 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Tony Landells" <ahl@austclear.com.au> Cc: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: suroute ?? Message-ID: <01ab01c0b18f$98ca2c40$8300a8c0@apana.org.au> References: <200103202233.JAA17881@tungsten.austclear.com.au>
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Topology is typical ISP except that many of the "clients" have 2 / 8 / 16 public IPs. A quick workaround is to to enable NAT, however that defeats the object of running servers on the LAN .... all appear from outside to have the gateway IP address. Adding a route to the LAN subnet after connection has been established doesn't appear to be sufficient. I can't be the first to encounter this issue ... surely there has to be a more straightforward solution than messing around with apparently fragile perl scripts ?? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Landells" <ahl@austclear.com.au> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 8:33 AM Subject: Re: suroute ?? > > dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au said: > > Seems like a rather messy solution to a simple problem. Is this the > > best / most technically correct solution ?? I'm trying to root out as > > many "home grown" fixes that have been inherited here as possible & > > replace them with "standard" versions where available. I'm sure this > > isn't the only situation on the planet where remote users with a few > > public IPs dialin to a POP. How does everyone else deal with it ?? > > Mike's solution would fix your "problem" as presented--that you have a > script which has stopped working. It would also be a "minimum change" > solution because all the rest of your setup should be the same. > > Given additional information (like what it's for), you'll get a different > solution. > > > Wayyyyyy back when, all the dialup users used SLIP, thankfully there > > aren't many of them left. However I've had better results with user- > > ppp than pppd and would like to move all the dialups over to user-ppp. > > Main challenge appears to be automating the "route add" after the link > > is up. > > One of the sad things about SLIP is that most implementations didn't > permit you to set up routing, so you needed hack solutions. > > PPP is much nicer because there's some address negotiation as part of > the protocol. > > However, without a good knowledge of your topology it's hard to say > what the best (or even a good) solution would be for you. > > Tony > -- > Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> > Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 > Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 > Level 4, Rialto North Tower > 525 Collins Street > Melbourne VIC 3000 > Australia > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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