On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 11:04:30PM +0100, bert hubert wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> I have an application that wants a Real IP Address, but for a variety of
> good reasons, I can't connect the machine to the internet directly.
>
> So, I need this:
>
> DSL - Linux - Windows PC
>
> Where I need the Windows PC to think it has the real single IP addres
> assigned to me by the DSL provider. I run PPTP on the Linux box, which
> should not touch traffic for that IP address.
>
> Now I know that several DSL routers are capable of this stunt, so we should
> be able to do this too. But how?
>
> Linux is pretty stubborn in routing packets for its own IP address elsewhere
> (rightfully so). I previously spent some time on this with a lot of
> SNAT/DNAT trickery but it is not very pleasing, nor did it work.
>
> What we're trying to do is a lot like building a bridge between ethernet and
> ppp, but not quite.
>
> Anybody have ideas? If we find something I'll post it on http://lartc.org.
Have you tried using LVS with Direct Routing? It might do the trick
as long as the Windows PC can route outgoing packets directly through
the DLS router.
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Horms
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