FreeBSD as dial up server...

[Harald Schmalzbauer]

On Sunday 21 December 2003 03:52, Drew Robertson wrote:
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Would you happen to know if setting up the FreeBSD box as a DNS server
> would allow network browsing over the PPP link???

No. DNS doesn't help in this situation. But anyhow, DNS is reqired for Samba 
to act as WINS server which could help. Can't remember exactly if wins itself 
was enough to enable dial-up browsing.
I did the broadcast bimap with ipf (Darren Reeds IPFilter) (like "bimap tun0 
192.168.1.255/32 -> 192.168.0.255/32" for ipnat.conf)

-Harry

>
> I have no idea how to bimap a broadcast address along subnets!!!  But that
> is something I'm gonna have to learn!  I only have one subnet, so I'm not
> sure that'll work in this case.
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
> From: Harald Schmalzbauer <h at schmalzbauer.de>
>
> >To: "Drew Robertson"
> ><the_brothel at hotmail.com>,freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >Subject: Re: FreeBSD as dial up server...
> >Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:46:29 +0100
> >
> >On Saturday 20 December 2003 02:57, Drew Robertson wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm working at getting my FreeBSd 4.8 system to act as a dial up RAS
> > > server...
> > >
> > > At the moment, I have almost everything working... yay!
> > >
> > > My question to anyone that knows... my FreeBSD system is running SAMBA
> >
> >and
> >
> > > is part of a workgroup in my home...
> > >
> > > Is it possible from a dial up client to view the Network using network
> > > neighbourhood??  I read somewhere that as the PPP server is a router,
> > > network browsing will not work... is this true?
> >
> >That is true. You'd need at least one server at each subnet.
> >But once I did a ugly hack to make it working: I bimapped broadcast
> >addresses
> >along the subnets. As far as I can remember this worked, but it was just
> >for
> >fun, I never used it. Also prividing a WINS at SAMBA and using that on the
> >ppp link was usefull but that was long ago (WinNT WinCE and Samba 1)
> >
> >-Harry
> >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
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