Subject: Re: Using airport- doesn't anyone know?
From: Samuel Rydh (samuel@ibrium.se)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2001 - 15:20:36 MDT
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:06:05PM -0400, William K. Gibson wrote:
>
> To date I still have no answer to my question about using airport from MOL.
> Has nobody successfully done this?
>
> I am using airport on the Linux side on Eth1. When I told my molrc file to
> use Eth1, it worked, but it was extreeemly slow. It is not slow on the Linux
> side, so I am really confused. What would cause this problem?
>
Eth0 is the built in port and eth1 the airport card? I just remembered
Ben made a change to the sheep_net driver in order to allow longer device
names (needed for airport support at that time, I think). I assumed
the interface was called airport0 or something.
Anyway, check the syslog for error messages. It used to be possible
(although I think there is a check now) to let MOL use an interface
which is not physically connected. Communication between MOL and
linux will still work, but very slowly (and the transmit buffer
will fill up with lot of errors as a result).
As an alternative, you could configure a tap device and use
masquerading.
Regards,
/Samuel
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