I have a gw router connected to the internet.
This gw router has at least 2 ethernet interfaces in a bridge. These interfaces connect to the rest of my client network(s). Like some unit with IP 10.10.10.4/24
IP on this gw router’s LAN-bridge= 10.10.10.1/24 (example)
I have a PPP secret setup for my laptop with local address; 10.10.10.1 and remote address; 10.10.10.12
I have a wan miniport (PPTP) dial in on my windows (XP) computer.
GW router has internet connectivity, like all clients behind it on the LAN. So that’s all working fine.
Laptop has internet connectivity.
Laptop can dial-in to the gw router from the internet. Authenticacion is done and laptop gets IP 10.10.10.12
I can now login with winbox in my gateway router with IP 10.10.10.1
According manual I have to set ‘proxy-arp’ on the LAN interface of the gateway router, so my distant laptop can ‘see’ all other units within the 10.10.10.0/24 network. First I set it on the bridge interface that has the two physical LAN interfaces. Than I also set it on the physical LAN interface that connects physically to this 10.10.10.4 router.
But I cannot! I cannot ping any other router than 10.10.10.1
I cannot open any other winbox session than to 10.10.10.1
Even when I login into the gateway with 10.10.10.1 I CANNOT ping (ping tool in winbox done in the gw-router) adjacent routers like 10.10.10.4
At the same time I CAN from a local (from my LAN) winbox session run a ping (same ping tool in winbox in the gw-router) towards ALL adjacentent routers (and more through routing).
I would think that after making a PPTP tunnel from my laptop into my default gateway router I should be able to reach the same routers by ping as if I would have logged in from the LAN side? Since the ping tool is just running from the gw router and I’m only ‘looking’ at it from a different location? HOW TO EXPLAIN THIS??