Routing question

[Andrew Smith]

On each of your gateways (x.y.z.6 & a.b.c.d) add a host route for each 
peer via their normal gateway/interface etc., as host entries are 
processed before network entries the tunnel will live happily ever 
after.

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com>
To: Linux user group <linux at samba.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 15:09:06 +1000
Subject: Routing question

>
>Hey,
>
>I have a network config which looks like:
>
>  (Network x.y.z.*)
>         |
>  ----------------
>  |    x.y.z.6   |   Client end
>  ----------------
>         |
>         | (ppp over ssh vpn)
>         |
>  ----------------
>  |    a.b.c.d   |   Server end
>  ----------------
>         |
>  (Network 172.31.0.*)
>
>So, the box x.y.z.6 connects to a.b.c.d with ssh, and then tunnels ppp
>through it. This has worked fine for some time. For instance, I can
>telnet
>to 172.31.0.201 from x.y.z.6, and it just works.
>
>Now, I want to be able to get to random hosts in x.y.z.* from the
>172.31.0.* network.
>
>To my understanding, I can't just go
>  route add -net x.y.z.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev ppp0
>
>Because this means that ssh can no longer talk to x.y.z.6 to get the
>traffic across.
>
>My host specific routes don't seem to work. Can I have a hint please?
>
>Thanks,
>Mikal
>
>
>-- 
>
>Michael Still (mikal at stillhq.com)     UMT+10hrs
>