"Jonathan D. Proulx" wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:30:18PM +0200, J?rn Nettingsmeier wrote:
>
> :this should give you an 115200 bps link. if your desktop is
> :connected to the internet, you should be able to access it on your
> :ipaq, too, provided that you have enabled ip forwarding in your
> :kernel and activated with "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward"
>
> not quite true, you need to have masquerading set up on the desktop
> machine for this to work. The example IP's are non-routable.
<blush>
of course jonathan is right. i have an extra box that does the
masquerading job for our home network, so i just forgot.
rusty russel's netfilter howtos are very handy to set up such a
beast. forgot the url, but google should know.
-- Jörn Nettingsmeier home://Kurfürstenstr.49.45138.Essen.Germany phone://+49.201.491621 http://icem-www.folkwang-hochschule.de/~nettings/ http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/Received on Wed Jun 27 00:05:55 2001
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