Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 11:28:47 -0400 From: James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp problems on 4.3-RELEASE and PPPoE Message-ID: <3B029CAF.F86BCE6F@thehousleys.net> References: <200105161525.IAA09781@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > Arghhh... I just noticed something else that could be it... your using > RFC1918 10.x.x.x addresses, well, depending on what your using for NAT > software it may or may not be doing the right thing with ICMP packets, > to correctly NAT an icmp type 3 packet you have to reach inside the > data portion and munge the IP address of the original packet that > caused the error, otherwise the host it is sent to is going to chuck > it because it has not opened any sockets to 10.x.x.x. > As stated in the message I am using natd for NAT. I am actually using 192.168.x.x addresses on the internal network. The 10.x.x.x are just there to keep ppp's iface command happy. They aren't used because with PPPoE ppp is invoked with -dedicated. Jim -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . X - NO Word docs in e-mail . / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- jeh@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve jim@TheHousleys.Net http://www.TheHousleys.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- "...there's no idea that's so good you can't ruin it with a few well-placed idiots." -- Charles Spickman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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