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- Using SLIP And Proxy ARP To Connect
- A Local Ethernet LAN To An Internet Connected LAN
-
- Dave Kennedy <davek@Muscle.Net>
- November 20, 1996
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- $Id: slip-arp,v 1.3 1996/11/20 16:06:51 davek Exp $
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- 0. Introduction
- 1. Other Options Available
- 2. The Final Result
- 3. Setting It Up
- 4. Kernel And Software
- 5. Outstanding Issues And Questions
- 6. Acknowledgments
- 7. Further Reading
-
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-
- 0. Introduction
-
- In late 1994 and much of 1995, I had a small Ethernet LAN at home that
- I connected to the Internet. At the time, I did not have my own
- network address and I wanted to piggyback on my employer's network
- address. I succeeded using SLIP and proxy ARP. This document quickly
- describes how I did it at the time. It also provides information on
- other options available now that were not there in 1993/1994. More
- than likely, these other options will be your best bet. But, I'm
- continuing to maintain this document for those who need this type of
- solution.
-
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-
- 1. Other Options Available
-
- When I originally wrote this mini-HOWTO, the options to connect via a
- dial-up LAN were more limited than today. If you want to connect a
- local LAN to the Internet via a dial-up connection, you should look
- at:
-
- IP Masquerade
- http://www.hwy401.com/achau/ipmasq/
- http://www.indyramp.com/masq/
-
- Use of proxy services
- http://harvest.transarc.com/afs/transarc.com/public/trg/Harvest/
- http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/
-
- All links are current as of the date of this document. I no longer
- use this technique; if I had the same requirements today, I would
- use IP Masquerade.
-
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-
- 2. The Final Result
-
- First, I'll present the final result and then describe how to get there.
-
- The final network is all on a Class C network (a.b.c.0):
-
- Internet
- |
- o-------+---------+----------------o <- Remote Ethernet
- | .126
- NetBlazer
- | .215 <- SLIP (via 14.4 modem)
- gw
- | .253
- o-----------------+--------+-------o <- Local Ethernet
- | .254
- mus
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- 3. Setting It Up
-
- The keys to getting this working are routing and proxy ARP.
-
- Here is gw's routing table:
-
- Kernel routing table
- Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
- a.b.c.254 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 5628 eth0
- a.b.c.253 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
- a.b.c.126 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 22 sl0
- 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 32 lo
- default a.b.c.126 * UG 0 0 9 sl0
-
- This table was created with the following commands:
-
- 1. The SLIP connection was established which created the default
- gateway entry and the a.b.c.126 entry.
-
- 2. ifconfig eth0 a.b.c.253
-
- 3. route add a.b.c.253 eth0
-
- 4. route add a.b.c.254 eth0
-
- Gw is now set up to talk to both eth0 and sl0. (This might be a good
- time to note that my kernel has IP forwarding configured.) The reason for
- the explicit route of a.b.c.253 may not be needed, but ping .253 from .253
- without the route causes the ping to take the default route out the SLIP
- link.
-
-
- Here is mus's routing table:
-
- Kernel routing table
- Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window Use Iface
- a.b.c.253 * 255.255.255.255 UH 1436 0 59 eth0
- 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 1936 0 52 lo
- default a.b.c.253 * UG 1436 0 21661 eth0
-
- This table was created with the following commands:
-
- 1. ifconfig eth0 a.b.c.254
-
- 2. route add a.b.c.253 eth0
-
- 3. route add default gw 192.68.22.253
-
- Now, at this point I attempted to ping the NetBlazer. I could see the
- packets being sent out the modem (SD was flashing), but there was no
- response. This was good since it indicated that gw was getting packets
- in on eth0 (Ethernet) and sending them out sl0 (SLIP).
-
- The next step is to get the other side of the SLIP connection (NetBlazer)
- to recognize and know how to talk to me. This was done by using its
- proxy arp command.
-
- Usage: proxy <hostid> ether|token|<interface> <mac-addr>
-
- proxy a.b.c.253 ether 00:c0:6d:11:66:d3
- proxy a.b.c.254 ether 00:c0:6d:11:66:e4
-
- At this point I was able to ping the Internet from mus. And all was well
- with the world. :)
-
- NOTE: The 'proxy' command is available only on the NetBlazer. The
- equivalent command under linux is 'arp -s <IP> <HW ADDR> pub'.
-
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-
- 4. Kernel And Software
-
- The kernel used on gw was 1.1.88 with IP Forwarding configured. This
- is required. The kernel on mus was also 1.1.88, but IP Forwarding
- was not configured. This does not matter.
-
- It's also worth noting that PPP could have been used instead of
- SLIP just as easily. [See, I told you this was a long time ago!]
-
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-
- 5. Outstanding Issues And Questions
-
- The main question I have came up while writing this. When I checked
- the ARP table on the NetBlazer, my ARP entries were no longer there, but
- everything was still working. I readded the entry for mus and it made
- no difference. If anyone has ideas on this, let me know.
-
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-
- 6. Acknowledgments
-
- My thanks to John Garnett <garnett@actlab.rtf.utexas.edu> for his
- post Dec 21, 1994 "A Guide on Using SLIP with ProxyARP..." I'm not
- so sure that my document is anything more than a rehash of what he
- wrote other than I'm using a NetBlazer on the Internet side and he
- had a modem attached to a computer. Anyway, thanks, John!
-
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-
- 7. Further Reading
-
- Dawson, Terry; "NET-2-HOWTO."
- Garnett, John; "A (client) SLIP Guide for Linux."
- Lots of other HOWTO's.
-
-