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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 20:22:28 -0000
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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- C.deGroot@inter.NL.net (Cees de Groot) writes:
-
- >>>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".
- >>
- >Don't start with flaming if you don't understand the original message!
-
- >What he meant, was that the gateway on the _other_ side of the line, ie.
- >the box in your ISP's office, should be told that it must route packets
- >for the second machine over the SLIP line. With dynamic SLIP, this is not
- >very easy. I wrote a quite extensive article about setting up masquerading
- >with Linux so other boxes on the LAN can go out to the net - this gives
- >you outbound connections without your ISP having to do anything. I'm
- >sure that it still floats around on the net...
-
- I've no idea where to look for things that "float around" on the net.
- Do you have Irish blood by chance?
-
- In any case, my understanding of the original question was this.
- The man has a "home net" with 2 machines on it,
- linked by Ethernet.
- Also machine 1 is linked by SLIP to the Internet.
- Now he wants to know if he can access the Internet
- from machine 2 via machine 1.
-
- Several people have asked this, or a very similar, question;
- and if you do have an answer, I'm sure lots of people
- would like to hear it.
-
- Could you not put out another copy of your "extensive article" on the matter?
- Is it really necessary to use masquerading to solve the problem?
-
- It is quite surprising to me that
- this simple query has not been properly answered
- in eg the Network Administrators Guide,
- where much more esoteric problems
- most unlikely to be encountered by a Linux user
- are dealt with at length.
-
-
- --
- 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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