🚀 go-pugleaf

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