Re: EON from behind maqueraded network

[Michael Holzt <kju@flummi.de>]

On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 04:04:49PM +0100, Niels de Carpentier wrote:
> The problem in my situation is that my sat card is not in my masquerading 
> server. 
[...]
> Any ideas what could be wrong here ?

As i just joined the list (and fiddled arround with filtering the old
messages out of the replies by ezmlm) i'm answering this question as
no one else did.

The big problem with masquerading is: Your PC behind the masquerading
router which contains the DVB-Card is sending out the requests to
the proxy with his own *internal* ip-address and is awaiting the answers
addressed to this *internal* ip-address. But the masquerading router
changed the source-ip address. So you will receive the replies over
the satellite, but they contain the *real* ip-address which belongs
to the router. 

It should probably work if you enable forwarding on your machine which
contains the DVB-Card, so this machine can send the replies to the
router, which will decode them and send it back to your machine (don't
forget to disable spoof-protection [rp-filter] on the router). 

This will make some weird setup, but i don't see why this won't work. 
I had the same problem, but as i work for a isp i solved it by obtaining
a subnet of true ip-addresses, so i never tried it out this way.

Good luck.

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / with kind regards

Michael Holzt