Re: Dialing in

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From: Ian Stirling
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 00:00

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Tom Bird <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>I have a problem.  I have a mate who is too far away to sling a network
>cable to who wants to join in our multiplayer games.  He has a modem, I
>have got Linux to answer the phone with pppd and so on and it all works
>just fine from the Linux machine but not from any other machine on the
>network.

Windows:
Go into network card options, set the netmask of the interface to 255.255.255.0,
and setup the gateway address.

Linux:
route add blah eth0
route add default gw blah

If the forwarding stuff is working right, it will just work.

What kernel version?
If it's 2.2, look for the IPCHAINS-Howto

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