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mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer) writes:

>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.

I've understood perfectly what you and others have said.
(The answers have all been different.)
However, I am not convinced that you or any of the other gurus
have actually tried what you say.

For example, with your "simple" solution,
what would distinguish the 2 networks (Ethernet & SLIP)?
Would you have an /etc/networks entry?
If so, what?

In any case, my understanding of the original question
was that the poster did not wish to register
a second IP address;
his question was whether he could route packets
from machine 2 through machine 1 to the Internet,
using SLIP with the static or dynamic IP address assigned by his ISP.

[I wish people who do not in fact know the answer to questions
would not pretend that they do.]


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