From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Cameron Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:09:15 +0000 Subject: Re: How to fix continuous ConfReq's on celluar internet connection Message-Id: <20080811050915.GF6024@hp.com> List-Id: References: <489F746B.3040002@123mail.org> In-Reply-To: <489F746B.3040002@123mail.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:03:58AM -0500, Marshall Crocker wrote: > What comes up are packets from a host in my local network getting sent > out over ppp! Every time a packet with the source from my internal > network gets sent over ppp, the connection reconfigures. You were > exactly right! Fantastic. It suggests the mobile telephone networks probably use the same software in their NAT implementations ... hey, it might even be a feature. > I guess its time to learn.... Yes, just block the packets that aren't from the source IP that pppd assigns to the link. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ HP Open Source, Volunteer http://opensource.hp.com/ PPTP Client Project, Release Engineer http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/