Subject: Re: Failure with MOL networking and ethertap
From: Robert Garnett (robert.garnett@btinternet.com)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 16:57:25 MST
> > > >I've been trying to get MOL networking up and running with the
> > > >ethertap method in the FAQ without any success.
> > > >
> > > >I'm running Linux on a PowerMac 7300 with a Cable Modem and a static
> > > >IP address. I'm running the latest MOL (0.9.41). I have a kernel (2.2.1
> > > >5pre11 from Paul's tree) with IP masquerading and ethertap compiled
> > > >in. I'm completely stumped and would like to know how other people go
> > > >this working!
> > > >
> > >
> > > Disd you configure MacOS TCP/IP control panel properly
> >
> > I think I did, here are my settings:
> >
> > Connect via : Ethernet
> > Configure : Manually
> > IP address : 192.168.0.2
> > Subnet mask : 255.255.255.0
> > Router address : 192.168.0.1
> > Name server addr: __ISP's_name_server_addr__ (same as under Linux)
> >
> >
> > Does any of this look wrong? Thanks.
>
>It looks fine. I've heard MOL's network driver doesn't work well with
>certain versions of Open Transport, and this may be the problem you are
>seeing as well.
>
>Here, I have OS 8.6 with OT 2.0.3, and MOL's network driver works well.
>
>
>Takashi Oe
It seems this is correct - I've was using MacOS 9 with OT 2.5.2 and I
couldn't get it working even though I set up everything exactly as
instructed.
However I just downgraded OT to 2.0.3 (still using MacOS 9) and
everything works as expected - I can ping to the Linux side and
telnet.
Rob.
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