Re: [LARTC] Linking two networks

[=?unknown-8bit?q?Roch=C3=A9?= Compaan <roche@upfrontsystems.co.za>]

Thanks for your help.

I will try this later this afternoon and let you know. I think I
understand a bit more about routing and networks now.

On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 14:37:09 +0200
Abraham van der Merwe <abz@frogfoot.net> wrote:

> Hi Roch?!
> 
> > > On your home gateway's eth0 assign 192.168.2.10 and on your office's
> > > side, assign 192.168.1.10 to eth1. Then use unnumbered ppp on both
> > > sides and make sure that ip forwarding is enabled on the office gw.
> > 
> > I don't quite follow how to set up unnumbered ppp. Should I just omit
> > the local_ip:remote_ip in my ppp options file at home?
> 
> That is correct. See, ppp is a point-to-point protocol, so traffic can only
> go in two directions anyway, so you can tell ppp not to use any kind of
> layer 3 routing and just send packets to the other side automatically.
> 
> In Linux you do that by just specifying local_ip:remote_ip on the server
> side and : on the client side.
> 
> > > Of course, you probably have /etc/ppp/* with the pon/poff scripts in
> > > which case you need to add above to your /etc/ppp/peers/* scripts
> > 
> > At the moment I have no scripts in place - I'm doing it manually to see
> > what works and what I should eventually put in the scripts. I only have
> > /etc/ppp/options on both sides.
> 
> Ok, so this (otoh so don't blame me if it doesn't work *g*) in your inittab
> should do the job:
> 
> ------------< snip <------< snip <------< snip <------------
> # At office
> S0:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 115200 modem noauth crtscts persist \
> 192.168.1.10:192.168.2.10 nodetach >>/var/log/leased.log
> 
> # At home
> S0:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 115200 noauth lock debug crtscts
> defaultroute persist nodetach >>/var/log/leased.log
> ------------< snip <------< snip <------< snip <------------
> 
> -- 
> 
> Regards
>  Abraham
> 
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> 
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