Re: Problem setting up a ppp server

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:43:27PM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > As for the default gateway setting on my client, which is the important one
> > for me, I cannot find anywhere to specify this on the dial-up connections
> > properties. I thought the ppp server would supply this information, just
> > like it does with dns servers. I cannot find anything on the man page to set
> > in the options though.
> dns servers do not supply gateway information they just supply ip addresses
> for machine names. You probably mean dhcp servers which do.
> ppp gateway information is supplied by the client and
> it is the address of the server. I can't right now check my w2k machine
> but client configuration must supply the gateway information explicitly
> or implicitly.
Ok I was slightly wrong. w2k is more screwey then one can expect. You
set the gateway by clicking the option use default gateway on remote
machine. So in a sense the server is supplying a gateway. But when
you do netstat -r on the w2k client it reports the default gateway to
be the ip number of the w2k machine which is crazy. But anyway the
connection works. In fact the gateway of the client is the ip of the
server. I can't see how it could work any other way and that is the
way it works in linux as the client.
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
715 Stadium Dr.
San Antonio, TX 78212-7200

telephone: (210)-999-7484
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