[Mpd-users] routing issue of mpd

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 1/31/06, gahn <ipfreak at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I got mpd working and logined into pptp server through
> internet. From my pc, I can ping internal interface of
> the pptp server, 192.168.128.1 (my pc address is
> 192.168.128.10). the problem is that I can't ping
> anything beyond that, such as 192.168.128.2 (it
> actually is an interface of a router, on the same
> subnet).
>
> From cmd of windows, with command "ipconfig":
>
> Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
>
>         Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
>         IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . :
> 254.254.254.100
>         Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . :
> 255.255.255.0
>         Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
> 254.254.254.1
>
> PPP adapter test:
>
>         Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
>         IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . :
> 192.168.128.10
>         Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . :
> 255.255.255.255
>         Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
>
> So how could I change the length of the masking of the
> ppp adapter?
>
> once I can change the length of the masking bits, then
> I can route my traffic into the rfc1918 networks that
> behind of the vpn server.
>
> the manual page of:
>
> http://www.bretterklieber.com/mpd/doc3/mpd22.html
>
> don't seem to be matter though.
>
> here is the mpd.conf:
>
> default:
>         load pptp0
>
> pptp0:
>         new -i ng0 pptp0 pptp0
>         set ipcp ranges 192.168.128.1/21
> 192.168.128.10/21
>         load common
>
> common:
>         set iface disable on-demand
>         set iface enable proxy-arp
>         set iface idle 1800
>         set iface enable tcpmssfix
>         set bundle disable multilink
>         set bundle enable compression
>         set bundle yes crypt-reqd
>         set link no pap chap
>         set link enable chap-msv2
>         set link keep-alive 10 60
>         set link enable acfcomp protocomp
>         set ipcp yes vjcomp
>         set ipcp dns 192.168.64.96
>         set ccp yes mppc
>         set ccp yes mpp-e128
>
> BTW, mpd4 seems to be not very stable; I switched back
> to 3.18 and it works fine.
>
> TIA
>
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It would be strange if a ppp connection had a different
subnet mask. You really should get into some reading
on basic TCP/IP.

What you need is to setup a route, something like this:
route add 192.168.128/21 192.168.128.1