Userland PPP/PPTP tunneling problem

[Brett Glass]

At 03:47 PM 4/17/2003, Sten Daniel Sørsdal wrote:
  
>> >Say if client gets 192.168.1.2 when client connects, you 
>> need to manually
>> >Enter: route -p add 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.0.0 192.168.1.2
>> >On the windows client before connecting.
>> 
>> But won't the Windows machine still get the broadcast address 
>> wrong? Seems
>> to me that it'd send to 192.168.1.255 instead of 192.168.255.255.
>> 
>> --Brett
>
>It would send to 192.168.1.255

Yep, and miss the boat.

>Broadcast and tunneling isnt a good combination, 

Yes, but broadcast is needed for ARP. To tunnel effectively,
you need to be able to ARP (for example) the printer on the
LAN you're tunneling into.

--Brett