RFH -> Request for Help.

Geoff Norton geoff at iRover.com
Mon Mar 27 21:37:07 CEST 2000


Ok,  did a little more debugging.. got hosts internal to A and B able to
talk to one another.. now the question of the day is how can I get lame
windows networking (network neighbourhood stuff) to work between to two
offices?  broadcast of 192.168.255.255 on both?


Geoff Norton
------------
iRover.com Director of Technology
Pager: (416)381-1665
geoff at iRover.com
geoff at timecity.org
Lead Network Developer of the Time City project.

On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Geoff Norton wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Geoff Norton wrote:
> > 
> > >   I see packet go across vpn and get to 192.168.0.237, however
> > > 192.168.0.237 doesn't pass it over to the eth0 device to get to
> > > 192.168.0.3.
> > 
> > Make sure:
> > 
> > - ARP is off on the tap devices (ifconfig -arp tap0)
> 
>   ARP is off.
> 
> > - routes are set correctly on all computers:
> >   192.168.0.3: route add 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 gw 192.168.0.237
> >   192.168.0.237: route add 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0
> 
>   The routing is fine, because 192.168.0.237 is the default gateway for
> 192.168.0.3, hence he forwars the packets with him as the gateway for
> 192.168.1.* automatically.
> 
> > - echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> 
>   This is already done.
> 
> > - firewall rules allow passage of such packets
> 
>   Firewalling allows the passage of the packet.
> 
> > - packets should NOT be masqueraded
> > 
> 
>   No masquerading going on.
> 
>   It looks to me that the packet goes over the vpn and gets picked up by
> the tap device on the other side, but never gets forwarded off the tap
> device to the kernel routing table.
> 
> Geoff Norton
> ------------
> iRover.com Director of Technology
> Pager: (416)381-1665
> geoff at iRover.com
> geoff at timecity.org
> Lead Network Developer of the Time City project.
> 
> 
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