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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!aix5.emba.uvm.edu!wollman From: wollman@aix5.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Re: SLIP network problem Message-ID: <1993Oct8.192453.19322@emba.uvm.edu> Keywords: SLIP, routing Sender: news@emba.uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility References: <kd.750077497@confucius> <293qla$ect@dlsn31> <kd.750099708@laotzu> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1993 19:24:53 GMT Lines: 35 In article <kd.750099708@laotzu>, Kostis Dryllerakis <kd@doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote: > The problem can be more generally put as: what do you need > to do when you connect to a machine on a subnetwork A.B.C as > part of the same subnet (e.g. get assigned A.B.C.yoU) in order > to see the rest of the subnetwork (from the side of the machine > you connect to maybe?) You can't. Some other systems support a hack which allows you to make this ``work'', but doing so definitely voids your warranty as far as correct network operation goes. Now that that's out of the way, here's what you can do (given the caveat that I STRONGLY recommend against doing this, and instead do it properly as IP was designed to operate): - Make sure that your kernel is compiled with the GATEWAY option. You should probably also compile with SENDREDIRECTS set to zero, since Net/2 doesn't even come close to meeting the Router Requirements. - When the point-to-point link is up, you can do arp -s remote.ip.add.ress yo:ur:et:he:rn:et pub on the well-connected host, and this will cause that host to proxy ARP for the other. (Thankfully, when we have IPng, you won't need to go through these kinds of contortions.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant