From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 26 15:53:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18361 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 15:53:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18221 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 15:53:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id PAA10199; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 15:52:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com( 207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V2.0) id xma010197; Thu, 26 Nov 98 15:52:01 -0800 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id PAA25059; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 15:52:01 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199811262352.PAA25059@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: SKIP Headscratcher (Long - and knotty) In-Reply-To: <01be1903$2f07f700$dae95d18@violet.neo.lrun.com> from Jim Flowers at "Nov 26, 98 01:08:27 am" To: jflowers@ezo.net (Jim Flowers) Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 15:52:01 -0800 (PST) Cc: skip-info@skip.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Flowers writes: > So the only conclusion I can draw is that SKIP and the VPN is operating just > as designed but some router (or routers) somewhere on the Internet is noting > the non-routable IP address for the SOURCE ADDRESS and is discarding the > packets instead of forwarding them. I think the current incarnation of the SKIP port includes a patch that lets you replace the source address with that of the tunnel endpoint router (ie, with a real routable address). Looks like doing this is the only way out of the jam.. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message