🚀 go-pugleaf

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