Re: SLIP gateway on a local network

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From: Timothy Murphy
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 16:04

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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".

-- 
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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Subject: Re: SLIP gateway on a local network
Date: 18 Mar 1996 16:04:08 -0000
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