Re: (4.9-stable) Outgoing ppp through Shiva Lanrover

gemini_at_sicilia.mv.com
Date: 11/10/05

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    Thank you very much for the information. This may just be a question
    of which firmware revision my Lanrover has. At v4.54 I'm not able to
    find any options for NAT. I've just downloaded the latest firmware,
    v5.7, fortunately I have the HE model which supports that revision.
    And hopefully it will provide that functionality. Thank you all for
    your patience.

    Addendum- This Lanrover does have three ethernet port connectors, but
    only one ethernet interface. There is a selector switch next to the
    connectors.

    On 10-Nov-2005 Brian Candler wrote:
    > On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:41:38PM -0500, gemini@sicilia.mv.com wrote:
    >> I would highly prefer to handle this dial-out ppp with a shared
    >> Shiva Lanrover 8e terminal/modem server (firmware 4.54)
    >> On the lan side, the Shiva is able to handle both tcpip and ipx
    >> connections. It is able to initiate and handle an outgoing ppp modem
    >> connection using it's "lan-to-lan connect" feature. This partly works.
    >>
    >> The problems are that
    >> (1) The Shiva is not a router, it only bridges. Everything on the
    >> lan-side goes straight through with no NAT.
    >
    > The Shiva Lanrover I used a couple of years ago was most definitely a
    > router. It had three LAN interfaces, plus serial PPP for backup. I don't
    > remember the model number, but it was sold as a firewall / VPN termination
    > device.
    >
    > It definitely did NAT too - the 'inside' and 'dmz' networks we had were on
    > 10.x.x.x addresses, but the outside on public IPs.
    >
    > Sorry this doesn't help you much, but it might be worth looking into the
    > documentation a bit more just to make sure.
    >
    > Incidentally, the difference between a bridge and a router is not to do with
    > NAT. If your Shiva is a router (which I think it probably is), then the
    > packets will still be forwarded to your ISP with the source IP address
    > unchanged, unless NAT is configured.
    >
    > You can of course just do a direct PPP dialup from your FreeBSD box, which
    > will solve the problem.
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > Brian.

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    Date: 10-Nov-2005
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