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- From: rypma@waterloo.hp.com (Ted Rypma)
- Subject: Re: Need help routing with PPP
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:26:01 GMT
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- Organization: HP Panacom Div Waterloo ON Canada
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- Ernest Clinton Arbaugh Jr (cea@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu) wrote:
- :
- : I've got PPP running on a pair of SPARCstations, but I can't seem
- : to get them to route. Here's basically what things look like:
- : (Greatly simplified.)
- :
- : Local Site Remote Site
- : +----+ +----+
- : | A |--------| D |
- : +----+ PPP +----+
- : | |
- : | <. .> |
- : | \ / |
- : +----+ Y +----+
- : | B | | | E |
- : +----+ | +----+
- : | |
- : | <- Ethernet
- : |
- : +----+
- : | C |
- : +----+
-
- When PPP is started up on A and D, somehow A must publish the route to
- the D/E network to hosts B and C, and D must publish the route to the A/B/C
- network to E. (A and D, of course, have no problems with each other, but
- have no knowledge of the other's second interface.) Routing protocols do
- exist and can, I suppose, handle the situation, but I have had very little
- luck dynamically adding routes when SLIP/PPP start up.
-
- To get around this, we have added static routes for hosts on multiple
- different networks to reach each other through the PPP/SLIP gateway hosts.
- This works well for us.
-
- If there is only a single remote host, the gateway host on the multi-host
- network can respond to ARP's for the single remote if told to do so,
- but that doesn't work very well when there are multiple remote machines.
-
- An example gated.conf entry found on ALL our hosts on the main (25.4.0.0)
- network is as follows:
-
- static {
- 192.61.63 gateway 25.5.4.6;
- 192.61.59 gateway 25.5.4.2;
- 192.61.58 gateway 25.5.1.27;
- 192.61.57 gateway 25.5.4.50;
- 192.61.56 gateway 25.5.4.101;
- 192.61.55 gateway 25.5.4.58;
- 192.61.54 gateway 25.5.4.43;
- default gateway 25.5.1.1; <== Cisco
- };
-
- propagate proto rip {
- proto static {
- announce default;
- };
- };
-
- Each line of static route lists the two interfaces on a host with a
- (in this case SLIP, but PPP shouldn't differ) serial link. We subnet
- the class C address so that the SLIP link itself takes two addresses
- and most of the rest are available on the remote end Ethernet. In
- some cases, the remote end consists of only one host and no Ethernet
- and in others, there are a number of hosts and devices on the far end.
-
- The gated protocol seems unable to deal with subnets so we simply send
- everything to the gateway (on network 25.5.0.0) and allow them to route
- appropriately. (The gateway hosts also have static routes to direct all
- 192.61.xx.0 traffic to the remote end of the SLIP link, which then
- forwards if necessary on its Ethernet interface. Lots of routes, but
- once they are set up, it all works flawlessly.
-
- Regards,
-
- Ted Rypma
- HP Panacom Division
- Waterloo, Ontario
-
- (All opinions expressed are mine and not my employer's.)
-