Quick run down - I have a typical setup - internet - 2 X adsl modem - mikrotik (acting as NAT, pppoe server and ap-bridge) - wireless clients.

From the internet I can access services running on a certain pppoe client using dst-nat and making sure the pppoe client always gets the same address, works well. but can't access the pppoe client from another pppoe client. EG I can vnc into the client pc, but I can't vnc the client from another client.

How can I forward packets between 2 pppoe clients, anyway to bridge the two? I have many pppoe clients so I don't want to enable forwarding on the AP which probably wouldnt work anyway or would it? just curious.

I also don't want to have an ip address on the local interface as its not recommended with a pppoe server so I can't use a PPTP server, though I heard that might solve the problem.

pppoe client a = 10.10.10.11 routing mark = bobhouse
pppoe client b = 10.10.10.12 routing mark = boboffice

I only use routing marks to route out through a specific adsl line

How can I set it that I can "ping" client a from client b. any ideas?

proxy-arp?..

I don't understand proxy arp, had a look and it mentioned something about vlan's. Well, a vlan is sort of what I want to create between the two pppoe clients. I need more help than just the suggestion though, how would I implement it?

I need some way of bridging the two pppoe clients, this must be possible hey?

Please any help would be great.

Basil

Thanks, but I have gone through that link, and the manual for mikrotik about proxy-arp. i have enabled proxy arp on the interface that is the pppoe server, I have also tried entering in arp values manually for both ip addresses - but I can still not access pppoe client A from pppoe client B, but it still works from the internet.

Please guys, its not like I haven't tried, but I can't figure this one out.

Alright, so after removing the routing marks my problem is solved. It works even if ARP on the pppoe interface (ether1) is set to enabled or proxy-arp, doesn't seem to make a difference. I can now access the web site running on one pppoe client's pc from another pppoe client - so my new question is:


How do I get it to work now that I know the problem is the routing marks that are being added? Should I leave the routing marks off and add static routes if I want to decide which gateway (ether2 or ether3) the pppoe client should route out on.

Can I use a route entry to do the same as what the routing marks did? Basically under ip route - I added a entry that packets with a certain mark go out through a certain gateway.

please post your mangle rules and routes where routing mark is used

add a jump rule before your routing mark rule that says:

src-addr=<pppoe1> dst-addr=<pppoe2> action=jump chain=bypass-mark

Thereby bypassing the routing mark rule for local traffic.

OR

In your routing mark rule, make the dst-address=!<local address list>

hello,

I have the same problem,
i cant access my pppoe clients from other clients.

i am running a Mikrotik PPPOE server,
and i am using PCC.

any help?
thanks