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- From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
- 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: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 22:37:39 PST
- Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
- Distribution: world
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- References: <314B4C05.7FD76F10@bbs.infosquare.it> <DoEHtq.51v@gaspode.mayn.de> <4ik1ho$suv@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <4ikcb0$r9g.C.deGroot@news.inter.NL.net> <4ikgm4$dvm@bell.maths.tcd.ie>
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- In <4ikgm4$dvm@bell.maths.tcd.ie>, tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) wrote:
- > C.deGroot@inter.NL.net (Cees de Groot) writes:
- > 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.
- > 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.
-
- 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.
-
- The problem with the simple solution could well be step 1). If your
- ISP refuses to give you the IP address, then it's no longer a "simple"
- question. You now have to arrange to have the gateway machine put its
- IP address on packets from the interior machines before sending them
- out, and figure out which incoming packets belong to it and which
- belong to interior machines, and distribute them appropriately.
- Documentation on how to do that is what Cees De Groot was pointing you
- towards.
-
- I haven't looked into doing this operation. However, gettting a class
- C network from the NIC is simple, asking your ISP to route to that
- network is simple, and finding another ISP if they refuse to do so is
- also simple. Which is why that's the route I would take.
-
- <mike
-
-