Re: routing from portmaster 2e question (fwd)

Colin Pinkham (colin@iafrica.com)
Fri, 17 Nov 1995 12:18:44 +0000

> On Thu, 16 Nov 1995, Colin Pinkham wrote:
>
> > > On Tue, 31 Oct 1995, Steve Davies wrote:
> > >
> > > > - Do "add netmask a.b.c.0 255.255.255.224" (etc) on all your portmasters
>
> When I do this and do a Save All - my telnet sessions freeze up (except
> for my dial in sessins directly to the PM), and new users dialing in don't
> seem to go anywhere - they can't see my DNS or nothin - I have checked and
> rechecked my setup on the Cisco, the PM and in the Radius users file - any
> ideas?

Are you using the same network as your ethernet ? Portmasters don't
handle variable subnets.

Colin

>
> Do I have to reset my netmask somehwere else - its like packets get lost.
> As soon as I "Delete Netmask" on the PM everything works again. I have
> ComOS 3.1.4 on the PM, the ethernet netmask on the PM is 255.255.255.0 -
> would that make a differemce? The telnet sessions that freeze are dial in
> sessions to my server (a BSD/OS system) - so I go through the PM to the
> ether to my BSD box to establish a session.
>
>
> This user is getting really miffed about my inability to get this going
> for him.
>
> Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Pat McClanahan pat@sodak.net
> SoDak Net info@sodak.net
> South Dakota's Largest Internet Provider www.sodak.net
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