Previous network: I had a few PC’s connected to a standard Netgear DG834 modem/router. The modem made the PPPoE connection to the ISP itself. On my work PC at home I made a second PPPoE dial-out from Windows XP through the modem to the server at work to access my PC there to establish a remote desktop connection so thet I could work from home.
Current network: I’ve purchased a Mikrotik license and built a RouterPC to manage routing in my home and split computers into different subnets. My RouterPC has several ethernet interfaces of which one (192.168.5.250/24) is connected to my work PC (192.168.5.1) and another (10.0.0.2/30) which connects to the Netgear modem still in router mode (10.0.0.1/30).
On the modem route has been set up to reach 192.168.5.0/24 through 10.0.0.2 and on RouterPC static route 0.0.0.0/0 gateway=10.0.0.1.
The XP PC’s default gateway=192.168.5.250 and primary DNS=10.0.0.1. Internet is accessable from the work PC, BUT my problem is that I cannot make the second PPPoE dial-out anymore from XP. I assume that is because the ethernet interface of the PC is not directly connected to the modem anymore and that the Mikrotik router discards it since no PPPoE servers are set up on it.
I want to know if there is a way to forward the PPPoE connection request from 192.168.5.1 to 192.168.5.250, to 10.0.0.1 (the modem)?
Otherwise I thought about setting up a PPPoE client in the Mikrotik RouterPC to dial to the server at work itself, and create a PPPoE server on the same RouterPC also to which the work PC at home will connect and bridge them in such a way that I could just connect to the local RouterPC with PPPoE on XP and connect to PC at work for remote desktop conncetion.
Any suggestions and help will greatly be appreciated. Baie dankie mense.