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On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Vaughan Clarkson wrote: > behind a firewall. Now, I can still `access' my Coda server from home > if I do the standard (?) firewall-piercing tricks, which basically > involves running pppd inside pppd over ssh. However, this sets up a > second interface (ppp0) on the Coda server, as well as the usual eth0, > which have different IP addresses. So although I can `access' my Coda > server (i.e., I can ping, ssh, etc., over the new interface), I can't > actually mount a Coda filesystem from home since Coda seems to be > sensitive about which interface it's responding to. However, I don't > want to switch the Coda server to the ppp0 interface because of the > other machines at work that communicate with the server over the eth0 > interface. Note that all machines are running pretty standard Red Hat > 6.2 or 7.0. > Have you tried to use the proxyarp option on your gateway pppd and to assign a "LAN" address to your remote (from the gateway point-of-view) host? This might solve this particular problem problem (if you have set up routing correctly via eg. /etc/ip-up on the remote client). peterReceived on 2001-03-21 02:02:36