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- From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Gateway Programs ?
- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 00:10:30 PST
- Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960404.74033E0.858@contessa.phone.net>
- References: <4jcm96$qo4@newsgate.dircon.co.uk> <4jj9ki$6q6@pan.otol.fi>
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- In <4jj9ki$6q6@pan.otol.fi>, aalto@lyseo.otol.fi (Lauri Aalto) wrote:
- > Dominic Clifton (dominicc@dircon.co.uk) wrote:
- > > I have 2 amiga and 2 pc's and want them to all be able to use my ISP
- > > via at the same time, so I need somekind of ip gateway/router program
- > > to run on one of the computes that connects to my ISP so that all the
- > > other computers can access the internet (they are linked via amitcp,
- > > wfw and win 95 at the moment)
- > Configure the computer which is linked to both networks, ie. the local one
- > and the one of your ISP's, as a gateway machine and make the rest of the
- > computers route their traffic to the outside world through the gateway.
- > In most cases all you need to do is to reconfigure your TCP/IP stacks.
- > For instance, in AmiTCP's configuration file you'll just need to change
- > GATEWAY=NO to GATEWAY=YES, configure the two (or more) networking devices
- > and create routes for them. For more specific advice you'll need to be
- > more specific yourself too.
-
- There's a critical step missing in here. You hinted at it, in mentiong
- that you have to make all YOUR computers route their traffic to the
- outside world through your gateway.
-
- The critical step is to make the outside world route all it's traffic
- to those machines through your gateway as well. Fortunately, this
- isn't (technically) that hard. Tell your ISP you need traffic to those
- IP addresses routed to you as well. They may refuse - at which point
- it becomes a political issue. You'll have to deal with that as best
- you can.
-
- <mike
-
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