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In article <4kmljt$hqg@infa.central.susx.ac.uk> tepa1@central.susx.ac.uk (Iakovos Stamoulis) writes:
> Qustion is simple, I have connected my Amiga with the University UNIX
> host via a SLIP connection (using SLiRP). Can I connect some PCs to my
> Amiga via Ethernet, so that the Amiga is  a Gateway for the LAN to the
> Internet ??
> 	Is AmiTCP capable of doing that ?

Yes, it most certainly is. I'm doing it right now. My Amiga has a CSLIP
connection to the Internet, and it has an ethernet connecting it and a
Macintosh. Soon, we'll be adding a Sun workstation. I also have 2 extra
serial ports (& par. port), 1 of which I use to have an extra user running
on my Amiga (a standard shell with stdio redirected to the terminal).

	Internet
	   |CSLIP
	   |
	+---------+	+--------+	+---------+	+-----------+
	|Amiga3000|<----|Terminal|	|Macintosh|	|Sun4/110   |
	|25MHz'030|RS232+--------+	|33MHz'040|	|to be added|
	+---------+			+---------+	+-----------+
	   |                               |                |
	 T-+-------------------------------+----------------+-T
		ethernet (10-base-2)

Now for the bad news. I think SLIrP is sorta like TIA and all those other
things, in that it doesn't really allocate an IP address to you. In my
case, I got my provider to allocate a 4-bit (16 address, up to 14 nodes)
subnet to me. So, I simply allocate an address from that pool to each
machine on my ethernet (the Amiga actually gets 2, one for the SLIP interface
and the other for it's ethernet interface).

I'll defer to someone who knows more about SLIrP, and whether it can
handle multiple source addresses from the dial-in side.

					Good luck,
					Vicky

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Vicky Staubly		Amiga 3000 owner	vicky@steeds.com
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"Software isn't released, it's allowed to escape."