home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: jake.esu.edu!pear6459
- From: pear6459@kutztown.edu (Christian L. Pearce)
- 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
- Followup-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.amiga
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 00:29:16 GMT
- Organization: Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Message-ID: <4j250s$bab@jake.esu.edu>
- References: <314B4C05.7FD76F10@bbs.infosquare.it> <DoEHtq.51v@gaspode.mayn.de> <4ik1ho$suv@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <4ikcb0$r9g.C.deGroot@news.inter.NL.net>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: atlantic.kutztown.edu
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
-
- Cees de Groot (C.deGroot@inter.NL.net) wrote:
- : In article <4ik1ho$suv@bell.maths.tcd.ie>,
- : Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
- : >
- : >>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...
-
- : --
- : Cees de Groot <C.deGroot@inter.NL.net>
- : OpenLink Software, Inc.
-
- I am also interested in the masquerading technique could you tell me
- where I could get more info on this?
-
- Christian Pearce
-