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Re: Router/Gated config
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (RHS Linux User)
Tue Apr 30 17:21:00 1996
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 09:20:59 -0500 (CDT)
From: RHS Linux User <zap@kraken.port-aransas.k12.tx.us>
To: Dave Wreski <dwreski@ultrix.ramapo.edu>
cc: linux-net <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.91.960428220334.27914A-100000@ultrix.ramapo.edu>
Hi Dave,
I just sucessfully set up gated on one of the linux boxes in our
network that is attached to two nets; one is all linux, the other (with
the exception of the routing machine) is pure M$ WFWG.
The gated includes (or should include) a helper/control app called
gdc. It can be used to stop/start gated, get status info from gated, and
to generate gated config file(s).
I got it set up and running in about two hours, but one great help was
info available re: configuration at http://nic.merit.edu
These folks do a lot of work with routing softwares of various sorts,
and this is their base page so you'll have to poke around and find the
GateD Consortium. On this page you will find config instructions, man
pages, and -a lot- of other information pertainent to gated.
The thing to watch out for about gated is its complexity; it is
prepared to do a -lot- more routing than either of us will ever do (it
was designed to do routing for NSF Backbones).
Consequently now that I have it running its bulletproof, and on a machine
that routed has been cratering and dropping routes to at a rate of twice per
day.
James G. Stallings II
-Net Admin - port-aransas.k12.tx.us (and others)
On Sun, 28 Apr 1996, Dave Wreski wrote:
>
> Hi all. I have read the NET-2-HOWTO now, and I am confused on exactly
> what I need to get my situation to work. I would like to have one linux
> box connected to the internet via ppp, and my sparc and my other linux
> box to be able to telnet thru the one with the modem to the internet.
>
> I think I need to use either routed, or gated, but the gated on sunsite
> is missing a few things. The HOWTO states that there are config file
> samples in the binary on sunsite, but there is in fact not. I dowloaded
> the src file (Beta3), but that does not compile. I managed to make it
> thru a few of the compile problems, (#include's wrong) but there is more
> to it than that.
>
> Is routed/gated in fact what I need for my situation?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Wreski
> dwreski@ultrix.ramapo.edu
>
>
