OT: Network setup - NAT

Hiisi very-cool at rambler.ru
Mon Mar 30 21:19:39 UTC 2009


> Tim wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 15:08 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> >> You will also have to add routes on all the machines. If you have
> >> configured ifcfg-eth0 correctly on the laptops, they will already
> >> have the routes.
> >
> > I've never had to add routes, just giving my network configurations
> > network masks and a gateway address has always done the trick for me
> > (configured through my DHCP server, these days).
> >
> I guess I should have expressed it better. If you have the network
> and gateway specified in the ifcfg-eth0 file on the laptop, the
> scripts will configure the routes for you. (I believe Windows does
> the same thing with its network config information.) On the F10
> machine, you will not want the gateway specified for the the
> interfaces that have the laptops connected.
>
> Now, if you have one laptop connected to each interface, and you are
> using the same network range for both, then you are probably better
> off using a PtP (PPP) setup, and proxyarp.
>
> Mikkel
> --
>
>   Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
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OK. Thanks for replaying. I'll try the script. And it's a good 
proposition about PtP. I'll check it in case the script won't work 
magically.
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Hiisi.




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