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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.


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