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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: 18 Mar 1996 16:04:08 -0000
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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- tanis@gaspode.mayn.de (German Tischler) writes:
-
- >: I own two UNIX machines connected via Ethernet: A and B.
- >: One system (A) is also connected to internet via SLIP (dynamic IP).
- >: How can i use the SLIP connection also on the other machine (B) ?
- >: I tried (in B) adding a default route to A, it seems that packets are
- >: sent but not received.
-
- >Your internet gateway needs to "know" about your second machine,
- >otherwise it won't know where to send packages back.
-
- Do you actually know how to solve this problem?
- If you do, may I suggest you tell us
- what entries you would make in what /etc files,
- instead of talking mystical nonsense about machines "knowing".
-
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- Timothy Murphy
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