Subject: Re: networking help needed
From: Mike Engelhart (mengelhart@earthtrip.com)
Date: Fri Mar 17 2000 - 18:00:07 MST
sean@panix.com wrote:
>> 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
Yes, I was using OS 9. I installed an 8.6 system and it worked immediately!
Thank you and someone please put this into the FAQ.
Thanks Sean -- I've been planning on downgrading to 8.6 since 9 crashes my
computer and now I have a good excuse to do it!
Mike
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