Hi,
Thanks to all that replied! The issue must have merit since I received two
summary requests and in the answers there were a few complaints about the
Sun implementation of ppp for not being able to do in a straigthforward
maner what I was trying to do.
The best solution, which I tried with complete success, was provided by:
Leonard Sitongia <sitongia@zia.hao.ucar.edu> and cbolan@mercury.ccca.centcom.mil
(Chris Bolan).
> I think this is solved by setting up a proxy arp on the local host that
> is the endpoint of the PPP host, the gateway. This is so that the
> ethernet address of the gateway is also assigned to the PPP host, so that
> packets can route back to the PPP host from your local net.
>
> arp -s ppp-host ether-addr-of-gateway pub
>
> Leonard
>
A -proxyarp option was also mentioned by gaskell@chester.digicon-egr.co.uk
(Phil Gaskell). This either is the same thing or an even neater way of
configuring the ppp connection. But I couldn't find anything in the ppp manuals.
Others sugested static routes in every server I wanted to communicate with:
route add host 9.136.133.100 199.136.133.8 1
Others sugested buying a terminal server with ppp protocol like Annex3 or
Morningstar's PPP software.
Almost everyone agreed that subnetting would work if I could spare half of
the adresses (less if I dived my network in more than two halves). I can do
that and will eventualy do it if I expand the ppp service, or use it to
connect two networks.
Thanks again to all of you that replied:
Leonard Sitongia <sitongia@zia.hao.ucar.edu>
"Henry Katz" <hkatz@lehman.com>
Michael Ramchand <mpr@relay.fj-icl.com>
gaskell@chester.digicon-egr.co.uk (Phil Gaskell)
"Peter A. Starceski" <starcesk@noc.hfh.edu>
roy@mss.com (Rahul Roy)
cbolan@mercury.ccca.centcom.mil (Chris Bolan)
bmaggio@lci.com (Bill Maggio)
pwolfe@mcs.net (Patrick Wolfe)
--Fausto
Here's my original message:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just set up a ppp server (Solaris 2.4 point to point link, ppp end
> point adresses are the same as the primary host adresses):
>
> remote host ppp local host local net
> 193.136.133.100 <-----------> 193.136.133.8 <----------> 193.136.133.xxx
>
> Everything went fine and my remote host was able to setup the link and
> communicate with my local host, but not with the other hosts in my local net.
>
> I know my remote host should be in another net so that my local host could
> act as a router between the two, but the problem is that I just have a class C
> adress available!
>
> Does anyone know for shure if I could do it using subnetting?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Fausto
>
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