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Re: Dialing in

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From: Tom Bird
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 00:00
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In article <950552342.15352.0.nnrp-11.9e98d142@news.demon.co.uk>, Ian
Stirling <Inquisitor@I.am> writes
>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.

Did that.  Didn't work.

>Linux:
>route add blah eth0
>route add default gw blah

Did that.  Didn't work.

>If the forwarding stuff is working right, it will just work.
>
>What kernel version?
>If it's 2.2, look for the IPCHAINS-Howto

Am doing that.  Thanks.

TB               Busby the Cat 1984 - 22.9.1999
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