Subject: Re: Mac-on-Linux FAQ
From: Brian Foddy (bkfoddy@soc.nwa.com)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 10:38:48 MST
phandel@cise.ufl.edu wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Brian Foddy wrote:
>
> > OSs. Just make sure the MOL has a different IP address
> > than the Linux side. This can be difficult (if not impossible)
> > if you are on DHCP, but if you can set the IP address, just
>
> This is not sufficient in most cases. Usually, you need to set up another
> device so that MoL can access LinuxPPC and vice-versa (see Martin's howto
> post). I have a different IP address in MoL and LinuxPPC, and, while
> networking works in both environments, they cannot ping each other. I am
> running MacTCPWatcher in MacOS, so that should respond to pings.
>
> You can easily request another IP address in a DHCP environment by using
> Gratuitous ARP ("garp") from http://mind.be/software/garp.
>
I admit I can't ping from Linux to MOL, and probably can't do other
tcp services, but I can telnet from MOL to Linux on the same machine.
And I would think most of the time that is the direction you want to go.
My only network persistant problem is the occasional Packet Allocation
errors, and its been much better in the past few releases.
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