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- From: aperusse@animax.com (Andre Perusse)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: How to use AmiTCP as a gateway?
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 16:20:26 GMT
- Organization: Animax Multimedia, Inc.
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- I originally sent this message to AmiTCP tech support, but they seem
- uninterested in providing timely tech support to those who purchase
- their software. If anyone can help me with this setup, I would be
- greatly obliged.
-
-
-
- I am using an Amiga 4000 with Warp Engine, 42MB RAM, OS3.0, AmiTCP
- v4.2. I am using a ppp device to connect to my ISP, and it works fine.
- I also use an Ariadne card to connect to two other machines in my
- office. I would like to have the two other machines route through my
- Amiga to the Internet.
-
- My ISP has assigned our office several static IP addresses. In
- startnet, I have AmiTCP use the ppp0 device. It works fine. The ppp
- connection has the Amiga with an IP address of 199.45.83.163. I then
- bring up the Ariadne card with IP 199.45.83.158. Both devices are
- using a netmask of 255.255.255.0. A machine on our network has an IP
- address of 199.45.83.162. Here's what happens.
-
- With both devices online, the Amiga can see everything - the Internet
- via PPP, and the local TCP network via ariadne. The Internet can see
- the Amiga at 199.45.83.163, but not the ariadne (199.45.83.158), nor
- any computer connected via the ariadne. A machine on the local network
- can see the Amiga at 199.45.83.158, but can't see beyond that. In
- other words, AmiTCP is not "bridging" the two devices, ppp and
- ariadne. I have gateway=yes in the AmiTCP config file, and I did
- everything I could think of with the routing tables. Nothing worked.
-
- Could you suggest what the problem might be, and what I can do to
- resolve it? I would also like to be able to use one IP address for
- both the ppp device and the ariadne, but I am unsure as to how to
- convince AmiTCP to route 199.45.83.162 through the ariadne if the
- ariadne has the same IP address as the ppp device.
-
- Thanks in advance for any replies.
-
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