[ILUG] [OT] Smoothwall and Eircom DSL.

[Dermot McGahon]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:09:50 +0300, Ruairi Newman <ruairi at tech-mad.org> 
wrote:

> Ouch.  You mean the Eircom-supplied Netopia Cayman can't do transparent
> bridging?  I was under the impression that you could just let it handle
> the PPPoE negotiation and hand you back your IP on it's ethernet
> interface.  If not, it's really going to mess with my brother's head.

It can function as an ethernet bridge, but afaik you have to take care
of pppoe setup yourself.

On the IPMaps one-to-one NAT suggestion. We're putting a freeS/WAN VPN
behind this. All the docs advise not to put a VPN behind NAT, but that
it may work in limited circumstances. This was why the bridging/pppoe
setup seemed better.

I think I have NAT twice here, once by netfiler for the locally connected
LAN, and then again by the Cayman router in its normal setup.

I used pppoeconf, an ncurses program which writes to

   /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-prover

jumpgate2:~# pon dsl-provider
jumpgate2:~# ps aux | grep pppd
root      6018  0.3  0.3  1996  892 ?        S    09:07   0:00 
/usr/sbin/pppd call dsl-provider

jumpgate2:~# tail /var/log/messages
Mar 24 09:07:46 jumpgate2 pppd[6018]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
Mar 24 09:07:47 jumpgate2 pppd[6018]: Serial connection established.
Mar 24 09:07:47 jumpgate2 pppd[6018]: Using interface ppp0
Mar 24 09:07:47 jumpgate2 pppd[6018]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2
Mar 24 09:07:47 jumpgate2 pppd[6018]: LCP terminated by peer
Mar 24 09:07:50 jumpgate2 pppd[6018]: Connection terminated.


Maybe I need to re-install rp-pppoe and take it from there.


Dermot.
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