well.
i made a mistake.

the subnet i get is 255.255.255.0, u were right.
and it's weird cause i also have it written in many places to try 
reproduce that config on m0n0

anyway...
that's the only mistake.

my question is:

why do mac, pc, linux fedora core 1 get all the details and connect to 
the internet
while m0n0 refuses to?
this is really turning me nuts

thanx

ciao.ubi





On Jul 20, 2004, at 11:05 PM, Fred Wright wrote:

>
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, ubi de feo wrote:
>
>> i have an ADSL over ISDN connection here in holland, with kpn.
>> the adsl modem is a speedtouch 510i (1 isdn port+1 eht port).
>> after ages spent on hacking the modem to have it working with DHCP
>> spoofing
>> (all the dhcp data are passed to the first machine that requests 
>> them),
>> i bought a
>> soekris net 4801, thinking that i could solve my problems with
>> 4801+m0n0wall
>> instead of the crappy unmanageable firewall that the speedtouch has in
>> it.
>
> If you were previously using the modem as a router, then that can cause
> further confusion, especially if it's doing NAT.  You may need to 
> change
> the modem config to act more "transparently" when using a separate 
> router.
>
>> well...
>> this was never working, mates.
>>
>> whatever machine i attach to the modem gets every piece of
>> configuration data.
>> IP
>> subnet
>> router(gateway)
>>
>>
>> now...
>> why doesn't m0n0wall get them?
>>
>> what i get from the DHCP server is the following
>>
>> IP: 213.84.x.x
>> subnet: 255.255.255.255
>> router: 195.190.249.11
>
> This is a completely illegal configuration.  The question is how 
> another
> machine *can* work with it. :-) Are you sure this is really what's 
> coming
> from the DHCP server?  And is it your ISP's DHCP server, or the one in 
> the
> modem itself?
>
> The all-ones (/32) subnet mask is illegal, since the maximum permitted
> length is 30 bits, except for a special kludge to permit 31-bit 
> netmasks
> on point-to-point links (which this isn't).
>
> Even with a proper subnet mask, the gateway has to lie in the same 
> subnet
> as the machine's own IP, or else it isn't reachable.  Given the 
> completely
> different "IP" and "router" above, you'd have no reachable gateway with
> any netmask longer than two bits.
>
>> i also tried to configure the speedtouch as PPTP, but i don't have the
>> "provider IP" to pptp to.
>
> You can't arbitrarily decide whether to use PPTP or not, since that
> depends on your ISP.  With the SpeedTouch, it's a function of whether 
> they
> use PPPoA on their side.  If the setup works with another machine, you
> should be able to look at that and see how it's configured.
>
> I don't know where you see "provider IP", but for the PPTP/PPPoA setup
> you'd specify the *modem's* IP (10.0.0.138 by default in the ST Home, 
> at
> least) as the "Remote IP address", and some other address in the same
> subnet for "Local IP address".  Make sure you change the netmask to
> something more reasonable than /31 (the usual for a 10.x address would 
> be
> /8, though the common /24 would be OK as long as you use 10.0.0.x for
> "local").
>
> If the ST 510i is anything like the ST Home, it has lots of 
> configuration
> options of its own, but most ISPs tend to set things up to work with 
> the
> default config, just because it's too much trouble to explain to users 
> how
> to configure it.  If you've made changes to the modem config, it might 
> be
> desirable to reset it to the factory defaults (perhaps backing up the
> configs via FTP first).
>
> 					Fred Wright
>
>
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