Re: autorouting problem (fwd)
George Bonser (grep@shorelink.com)
Sun, 15 Aug 1999 11:39:17 -0700 (PDT)
> What Im trying to do is dial into the network at work and route 5 or so
> ip's of the network down the ppp link so I can have routable IPs on my
> network at home without actually splitting the class C up. I've added the
> entries to the ARP tables and set up the forwarding rules with ipchains,
> and everything seems to work ok with one exception. I cant see any hosts
> on the actual class C because the machines on the dialup network all think
> that the entire class C is on *their* network due to the "autorouting"
> thing. Is there any way to disable this behavior, or a better way to
> approach what Im trying to do? Thanks
I think the trick here is in the netmask. If you make your PPP connection
with a netmask of 255.255.255.248 and put the hosts in that classless
subnet, all should work fine.
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