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Re: Linux as a Ether->SLIP router?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Woods)
Sun Oct 1 03:48:35 1995
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 00:13:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Woods <cjwoods@gigotech.net>
To: Linux Mail <linux@VCLINUX.vic.uh.edu>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950930170346.6252A-100000@VCLinux.vic.uh.edu>
On Sat, 30 Sep 1995, Linux Mail wrote:
>
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> 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.
[...]
> 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.
The only way you can do it as you describe is to either assign an entire
netnumber (Class C) to the 3-machine LAN, or to subnet another network.
If neither of these scenarios is possible, then it is necessary to use
some sort of proxy/ip-masquerade deal. I have done this several times with
an entire Class C network assigned to the LAN, with the linux box doing
56K async SLIP to the Internet.
Chris Woods Senior System Administrator USAinternet, Inc.
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