Subject: Re: Using airport- doesn't anyone know?
From: reto gmuer (gmuer@netiquette.ch)
Date: Fri Jun 08 2001 - 05:10:47 MDT
for me, airport is working fine (except dhcp on the mac site) without
masquerading. installed suse 7.1, installed airport device with yast,
and replaced "eth0" with "airport" in the molrc file.
cheers,
reto
Brice D Ruth wrote:
>
> 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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