Re: networking help needed


Subject: Re: networking help needed
sean@panix.com
Date: Fri Mar 17 2000 - 14:39:41 MST


> After digging through the archived MOL mailing list and LinuxPPC user list
> archive, I have decided that using ethertap with IP masquerading is the
> preferred way to set up MOL networking to route through my PPP connection.
> (At my office, I have a Linux box doing masquerading for an internal network
> so it works fine when I just assign it a static IP address given from that
> box - PPP at home is what's causing me problems)
...
> any help or information on how to get this working or if I just have some
> typo or something would be greatly appreciated. I've been screwing around
> for 2 days with this and have to get back to work :-)

Just by chance, Mike, are you using MacOS 9? If so, try going back to
8.6, or simply swapping out the OS 9 Open Transport extensions and using
the ones from 8.6. I was failing miserably to get MOL networking going
until I did this.

Sean



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