Subject: Re: Solution, at least for me (was: MOL networking broken on recent kernels?)
From: Scott Hankin (sdhankin@ma.ultranet.com)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2001 - 01:09:57 MST
>Hi,
>
>Scott Hankin writes:
>
>> Scanning the list has lead me to confirm what I've discovered on my
>> own; that 2.4.0 doesn't work with MOL networking. I've tried to set
>> this up using methods that worked in the past, but to no avail. Has
>> anyone else succeeded where I have failed?
>
>Well, my problem is solved now. It turned out to be very simple: I
>built and installed glibc 2.2.1 against the new kernel, then rebuilt
>and reinstalled MOL against the new glibc. After that, I simply
>configured a dummy device:
>
> ifconfig dummy0 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0 arp broadcast
>192.168.0.0
>
>enabled masquerading:
>
> iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -j MASQUERADE
>
>and put:
>
> netdev: dummy0 -sheep
>
>into /etc/molrc. There I was.
>
>Thanks to everybody who replied. And special thanks to Martin
>Constabel for also pointing out a typo in my .sig.
>
>Regards, Jens.
Amazing, Jens - you describe exactly what I did! I works like a
champ. The iptables command is so simple that I was wondering if
there was something else I should be doing! Thanks to all who
replied.
--- Scott
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