PPTP, EoIP and hostnames - little stuck.

RouterOS General
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Not sure if its even possible, but theoretically it should, practically im trying without success so far. So i guess im missing something here. But lets start it by little.

I have set up two routerOS in two offices, each with public address. In lab ive made them: Home 10.1.1.1, Remote 10.2.2.2

  1. Ive made PPTP between them with home being server and remote being client: Local Address: 1.1.1.1 ; Remote address: 2.2.2.2

  2. Now, ive added addresses for local network interfaces with them being 192.168.123.254/24 on home and 192.168.122.254/24 on remote.

  3. Routes on home: 192.168.122.0/24 with GW 2.2.2.2
    Routes on remote: 192.168.123.0/24 with GW 1.1.1.1

  4. Added DHCP for local interface, tried pinging computes from one local network to other - alls fine, works like a charm.

  5. Scr-Natted everything that goes out of Public interface. Added default route.

Now the hard part. Ive added EoIP Tunnel (1.1.1.1 to 2.2.2.2). Bridged EoIP interface with local interface and moved DHCP server to bridge, instead of local interface and made it possible to obtain address only if connected to local interface (so remote office cant snatch wrong ips). Tried winbox on one of computers to try and find routers by MAC - both are availible through EoIP.

Question. Is it possible to access remote offices computers by host name (without using WINS or Samba). Should be possible, as its bridged network?

Thanks in advance.

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if you are not able to use names, but you can ping any of your PCs then in router set up static DNS with host names you want and point dns entry of pc to that DNS that allows remote requests.

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Ok, in that case - whats the use of EoIP? To do that i can use only PPTP and route subnets on each router.

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Ok, this one is solved. Found the problem being in my firewall, dropping some traffic thats needed for EoIP to work.