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- From: heitkamp@ibm.net (Frederick V. Heitkamp)
- 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: 26 Mar 1996 12:01:19 GMT
- Organization: Private Site
- Message-ID: <4j8maf$108c@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>
- References: <314B4C05.7FD76F10@bbs.infosquare.it> <DoEHtq.51v@gaspode.mayn.de> <4ik1ho$suv@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <4ikcb0$r9g.C.deGroot@news.inter.NL.net> <4j250s$bab@jake.esu.edu>
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- Christian L. Pearce (pear6459@kutztown.edu) wrote:
- : 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...
-
- OK. What if you wrote to the NIC (or whatever it's called) and got your
- own class C addresses for the two machines? Would you still need to do
- the masquerading deal? Do you still need to tell your ISP?
-
- Fred Heitkamp
-