MOL Networking

[Olaf Olson]

Greg,

Thanks for the help. I find it quite surprising to discover that the adage:

If you make something foolproof, they'll just invent a better fool.

applies to me. Even more surprising was that it applies to me as the 
better fool, not the smart guy making things foolproof!

For those of you who have yet to try MOL, don't panic. It's even easier 
than you might think. There's one little issue. The first time you start 
MOL, assuming OSX, of course, you'll find a strange, Penguin Shaped icon 
appears on the Mac OS desktop. Further investigation would reveal that 
this is an application that only shows up when you need to install the 
network drivers for MOL to share the network card that comes with the 
Mac. Like many others before me and many others who will follow, I 
didn't know what that icon was, what dreaded application it would start, 
and what fearful things it might do to my Mac. I avoided it, ignored it, 
ducked it, and attacked the config files for MOL.

Bottom line: Don't panic, just double-click it and let it run. You won't 
have to edit the config files, you won't have to adjust the network 
settings, and you won't have to know what you're doing. That is, of 
course, based on my single point of experience, with a G3 400 (B&W), 
configured as the factory shipped it.

It's working wonderfully and I highly recommend MOL for those who have 
Mac applications for which they haven't yet located a true Linux 
equivalent. It'll tide you over until you find it.

Thanks again for the help.

Olaf

Greg Hamilton wrote:

> Use the tun driver by adding this line to /etc/mol/molrc.net.
>
> netdev:    tun${session} -tun
>
> Comment out all the other 'netdev' lines in the file with a '#'.
>
> Start MacOS using MOL. You'll find a new ethernet device available. 
> This is a virtual device. Create a network configuration which uses 
> DHCP to configure this device. MOL is the DHCP server. It will 
> allocate an address and I think it will also auto-magically configure 
> DNS though I manually specify the DNS server IP address for some reason.
>
> If all goes well the MacOS session will have it's own IP address on 
> the virtual interface. You should be able to see Linux from MacOS and 
> vice-versa over the network. The rest of your home network should also 
> be visible. Traffic from MacOS will be routed through Linux to your 
> LAN and if you have an Internet connection available on the network 
> you shouldn't have too much trouble talking to that too.
>
> There is a config file for MOL DHCP (/etc/mol/dhcpd-mol.conf) but I've 
> never touched it. The default config worked fine.
>
> Don't forget that your MOL network config won't work if you re-boot 
> into MacOS. In OS X I have two network Locations configured. One for 
> MOL and another for the odd occasion that I boot into OS X.
>
> I've used this config successfully running both OS9 and OS X in MOL.
>
> On 03/04/2004, at 3:33 PM, Olaf Olson wrote:
>
>> Let me rephrase my question.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to get MOL to look outward on the network?
>>
>> I am working with a G3 B&W. It is as close to stock as it is possible 
>> to get, with only the built-in ethernet. YDL has no problems - 
>> obviously, since I am writing  on it. Likewise, when I boot to MacOS, 
>> all is well.
>>
>> I also have a simple home network, no DNS, except the one supplied by 
>> my ISP, a cable router, providing DHCP.
>>
>> What have I missed in configuration?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Olaf
>>
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