[CVALE] pppd routes

[Patrick Bennett]

okay, and now i think i've discovered that occasionally the pppd on 
linux just stomps on the manually set up static route and kills the 
ability of the hosts on either side of the lan to see each other.

    -patrick

Patrick Bennett wrote:
> anyone know how to elegantly deal with the following situation?
>
> the goal is to have a modem/dial-in linux pppd server so that a user who 
> dials into it will have their entire lan connected to the entire lan of 
> the dial-in server.  there will be multiple users dialing in and their 
> local subnets will be different, but known ahead of time.  also, the 
> dial in server will have a default route to the internet that must be 
> respected.
>
> the place i'm caught is in how to elegantly set up the 
> (non-default/static) routes between the two lans, esp. on the modem 
> server's side.  i've been able to accomplish this in a sort of hacked up 
> way by using a putty definition that the user clicks on that asks for 
> the root password and sets a route (i can trust the guinea pig user with 
> the root password, but don't want to give it to everybody if i can avoid 
> it... and yes, i could keep the hack and use sudo, but i'd rather 
> eliminate the hack).
>
> does anyone have a suggestion on how to make the route setup happen 
> automagically so that each user gets the route to their lan set properly?
>
>     -patrick
>
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