Subject: Re: Using airport- doesn't anyone know?
From: Brice D Ruth (brice@webprojkt.com)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2001 - 17:15:23 MDT
I have MOL setup on an iMac DV w/ AirPort and it works fine. I have
done as Sam suggested - tap device + masquerading since this how I'm
used to setting up shared networking from my PC experience w/ VMware.
Quick FYI:
With kernel 2.4.x, you'll use iptables, so you'll want something to the
following effect:
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE (assuming eth1 is
your AirPort card)
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward (OR edit /etc/sysconfig/network
and set FORWARD_IPV4 to true/yes and restart networking for the change
to take effect)
Good luck,
Brice
Samuel Rydh wrote:
>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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