>>>>> "Bret" == Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bret> On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 10:21, David Ronis wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to use ssh and pppd to set up a ppp tunnel between
>> my laptop at home and a machine at work. Both machines are
>> running a 2.6.11 kernel, slackware 10.[01] and have pppd 2.4.3
>> installed. I more or less followed the instructions in the
>> ppp-ssh howto, which essentially runs the following command as
>> root:
>>
>> /usr/sbin/pppd ktune noauth updetach passive pty
>> "${REMOTE_COMMAND}" ipparam vpn
>> ${CLIENT_IFIPADDR}:${SERVER_IFIPADDR}
>>
>> where
>>
>> REMOTE_COMMAND=ssh -l ${SERVER_USERNAME} ${SERVER_HOSTNAME} \
>> sudo /usr/sbin/pppd ktune noauth nodetach notty proxyarp
>> ipparam vpn
>>
>> where ${SERVER_USERNAME} has sudo privilages on
>> ${SERVER_HOSTNAME}.
>>
>> and where ${CLIENT_IFIPADDR} is the IP address my laptop has
>> when it's connected at work and where ${SERVER_IFIPADDR} is the
>> IP address of the server 132.206.205.86 and 132.206.205.91,
>> respectively.
>>
>> ifconfig shows:
>>
>> ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet
>> addr:132.206.205.86 P-t-P:132.206.205.91 Mask:255.255.255.255
>> UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX
>> packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:21
>> errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0
>> txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:62 (62.0 b) TX bytes:4590 (4.4 Kb)
>>
>> on the client and
>>
>> ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet
>> addr:132.206.205.91 P-t-P:132.206.205.86 Mask:255.255.255.255
>> UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX
>> packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:49
>> errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0
>> txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:62 (62.0 b) TX bytes:4302 (4.2 Kb)
>>
>> on the server.
>>
>> pppd has created route entries:
>>
>> 132.206.205.86 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
>>
>> on the server
>>
>> and 132.206.205.91 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
>>
>> on the client
>>
>> If I ping 132.206.205.86 from the client I get a response, but
>> if I ping the server (132.206.205.91) I get nothing.
>>
>> Similarly, pinging the client from the server doesn't get a
>> reply.
>>
>> Finally, the connection times out.
>>
>>
>> My suspicion is that I'm close, but am making some sort of
>> trivial mistake. Any ideas?
>>
Bret> I am certainly no expert but I would next try traceroute
Bret> ip_of_remote_end on bothe ends and try to figure out where
Bret> the packets are going. The route command output is curious
Bret> it may be valid but I am used to seeing * instead of 0.0.0.0
Bret> for the gateway ip.
That's because I ran netstat -rn, simply using -r gives the *.
Bret> Looking at eh transmit and recieve byte counts looks like
Bret> the packets are not getting there. I would delete the routes
Bret> manually and recreate them if the packets are not getting
Bret> there.
I've tried that. It doesn't help.
Thanks for your help.
David
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