I your address 191.168.1.1 also the address you gave your gateway? Just wondering if my host and gateway are the same computer, whether I just need 192.168.1.1 or another as well?
NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Peter Ludwig wrote: > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > > I'm trying to IP Masq so that I can set up shared ppp. > > I enabled experimental drivers. Then, when trying to enable networking > > stuff, I can't find the IP Forwarding option. > > To get the IP Forwarding option you need to enable some weird options, I > believe it's multicast something or other under 2.0.X or well, you can > just select IP Masquarding under 2.2.1... > > > Also, I don't know what to do about ifconfig: I tried this: > > eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 broadcast > > 192.168.1.255. > > What am I doing wrong here? I think I need to change the ip number after > > 'eth0' to something else and add an entry to /etc/hosts. Is this so? > > I'm not sure why you need all those values, all I have mine setup to (and > it works) is: > ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > I added the gateway into the route of the machines that connect to this > box to internet :) Works fine for me :) > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >