🚀 go-pugleaf

Jim Smith wrote:
> 
> I am trying to set up an internal network (at home) with access to the
> internet.  This is more of an exercise for my interest rather than an
> attempt to do something serious.
> 
> I am using two Linux machines connect via plip. One of these machines
> also has a PPP connection to my ISP. I can successfully connect the two
> machine using PLIP, and while this connection is up I can access the
> internet via PPP from the machine with PPP set up.

mind telling me some about plip? like, what kind of a cable are you
using?
(ie, pinouts, or is it just a laplink cable?)

> What I can't do is access the internet from the other machine using the
> PPP machine as a gateway. Any tips.
> 
> So far I have the following
> 
> Main machine (desktop)
> 
> PPP connection using dip. IP address 158.152.3.4 pointopoint 158.152.x.y
> (I can't remember the real one at the moment.)

<snip>

> Is what I am trying possible? If so what I am doing wrong?

just a stray thought, but did you include IP_FORWARDING when you
compiled the kernal of the machine with the ppp connection?