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Linux as a Ether->SLIP router?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Linux Mail)
Sat Sep 30 23:11:24 1995
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 17:06:22 -0500 (CDT)
From: Linux Mail <linux@VCLINUX.vic.uh.edu>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
This seems to be a somewhat popular question, but I have yet to see this
variation and/or an actual solution.
I have a local ethernet (3 Linux boxes), I would like to use one of them
(via a slip connection, to another Linux box) as a router for my local
net to access
the Internet. I help to administer the net on the other end (At a local
College) and can assign the machines on my local net actual IP
addresses. I have IP-forwarding/Gatewaying compiled into the Kernel of
both machines (on either end of the SLIP connection). I ran routed and
added routes on the remote Linux box to my network, but I don't
think I did it right i.e. it didn't work. Since then I have read several
FAQ's newsgroups, irc'ed, etc, and have got answers from having to use
SLIRP-PROXY to using IP-masquerading. I don't see why these strange
methods should be necessary. This should be a simple router. I saw in
comp.os.linux.networking something about a gated daemon? but I have
Gatewaying compiled into the kernel...
It seems to me I should configure it as a simple ethernet router, and it
shouldn't matter that one of the interfaces is sl0.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
If you need more information please contact me.
linux@vclinux.vic.uh.edu
