Michael Rack wrote:
You have to setup a bridge on your linux-router and assign every dynamic
created ppp-interface to that.
brctl addif br0 pppx
Configure DNSMASQ to listen on the bridges interface.
interface=br0
bind-interfaces
And well, you're done.
Cheers,
Michael.
Thanks for the suggestion, Michael.
I have tried it, but unfortunately it doesn't work :(.
The command "brctl addif br0 ppp0" fails with "can't add ppp0 to bridge br0: Invalid
argument". It looks like point-to-point interfaces can not be added to a bridge (I tried also
with a TUN device, just to see if it could be added, and got the same error message).
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Kind regards,
Sergei.
Am 17.10.2009 14:04, schrieb Sergei Zhirikov:
Hi,
I'm using dnsmasq as a DHCP and DNS server on my Linux home gateway, which is
also a IPSec/L2TP VPN server. For IP address allocation for the VPN PPP tunnels
I use ppp-dhcpc plugin, which pretends to be a DHCP relay and requests IP
addresses from dnsmasq. That part works fine.
However, when the PPP link has been established the VPN client (a Windows PC in
my case, but I don't think it's relevant) send DHCPINFORM request to the
broadcast address 255.255.255.255. That request reaches the Linux gateway via
the PPP link, but dnsmasq does not reply, because it can see that the request
is coming from an interface it is not configured to serve.
I would really like dnsmasq to reply to those DHCPINFORM requests coming in
through the PPP links, but I haven't been able to configure dnsmasq for that. I
can't tell it to serve the PPP interface, because the interface name is
assigned dynamically (thus not known in advance). I can not tell dnsmasq to
serve all interfaces with some exceptions either, because then the list of the
exceptions would have to contain dynamically assigned names.
I have tried some tricks with iptables. Tried to use "-j ROUTE --iif ifname" to
make the packets appear coming form another interface with a fixed name that dnsmasq is
configured to serve, but dnsmasq still does not reply as if it somehow can see the
original interface name.
I have tried to use a pair of VETH interfaces to route the incoming packets to
one end of the virtual tunnel so that they would appear to dnsmasq coming out
of the other end, but that didn't work, because I didn't manage to get the
routing work the way I wanted (perhaps, because I lack necessary knowledge
about advanced routing).
I would appreciate any kind of help with this problem.
Thank you,
Kind regards,
Sergei.
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