Re: [MiNT] Questions concerning the new MiNT-

[Odd Skancke <oskancke@online.no>]

 Hi, Jo Even, and all.


On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:26:26 +0200, Torsten Lang wrote:
> 
> > it's not a day since release and I receive the first questions. Since there are 
> > things that ARE explained in the documentation (which I also updated!) do read 
> 
> OK, here's another: How do I get masquerading to work??
> 
> I have three computers in a network (plip), my TT with address 
> 192.168.1.3, my Falcon (192.168.1.2) and Palm (192.168.1.1). The 
> network-address is 192.168.1 (is this sensible? I have no idea), and 
> I have not set any non-standard netmasks in etc/netmasks.
> 
> How do I enable masquerading? On which machine+ And with what 
> parameters? I've been playing around (and reading the README...), but 
> so far without success...
> 

 As I write this down, aftp on the TT is downloading at 40-50Kb/sec via
plip from the Hades. Working very nice :) I don't quite understand what
you mean, 3 computers in a network with plip? You mean one of your
machines have two paralell ports? Anyway, all I did was this;

 TT = 192.168.0.11
 Hades = 192.168.0.10 (also  the masquerading machine)

 I have setup my network to be 192.168.0.0 (netmask 255.255.0.0)

 On the Hades I have in rc.net;
ifconfig pl0 addr 192.168.0.10 dstaddr 192.168.0.11 up
route add 192.168.0.11 pl0
masqconf address 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 set ENABLED

 On the TT, I have this;
ifconfig pl0 addr 192.168.0.11 dstaddr 192.168.0.10 up
route add 192.168.0.10 pl0
route add default pl0 gw 192.168.0.10

 That's it :) Now I can connect to the Internet whenever I want, and the
local network (not so big yet, but a falcon, TT, Sun SparcStation 2 and a
PC is to be added) is up all of the time. Sometimes, when I power up the
machines, I notice that they both hang (i.e., freeze) When that happends I
just unplug the plip cable in one of the machiens, then reconnect again. I
think this is because of some unsynchronization or something, but as long
as the machines are up running, there are no problems at all :) Btw,
thanks to Mario for bringing masquerading to MiNTnet, and to Torsten for
all the other fixes/maintaining of it ;-)

I'm happy now :)



 Odd Skancke - ozk@atari.org