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- From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: SLIP gateway on a local network
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 00:39:55 -0000
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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- mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer) writes:
-
- >It's been answered properly here a number of times. You were to busy
- >complaining about your not understanding the answer to notice that.
- >The simple solution is:
-
- >1) Get an IP address from your ISP for the second machine. Configure
- > the machine to use that address.
-
- >2) Enable GATEWAY (apparently a kernel recompile) on the machine with
- > SLIP on it.
-
- >That's really all there is to it.
-
- I've understood perfectly what you and others have said.
- (The answers have all been different.)
- However, I am not convinced that you or any of the other gurus
- have actually tried what you say.
-
- For example, with your "simple" solution,
- what would distinguish the 2 networks (Ethernet & SLIP)?
- Would you have an /etc/networks entry?
- If so, what?
-
- In any case, my understanding of the original question
- was that the poster did not wish to register
- a second IP address;
- his question was whether he could route packets
- from machine 2 through machine 1 to the Internet,
- using SLIP with the static or dynamic IP address assigned by his ISP.
-
- [I wish people who do not in fact know the answer to questions
- would not pretend that they do.]
-
-
- --
- Timothy Murphy
- e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
- tel: +353-1-2842366
- s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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