On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Arto Huusko wrote:

> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have two computers running NetBSD 1.3.2, an Amiga 4000 and a Pentium
> PC.   These  computers are connected to each other through serial port
> and  I  use  slip  to  run a network between them mostly to move files
> around.
> 
> The  Amiga  is  also connected via modem to Internet using ppp.  These
> both  networks  work  fine but I would like to gain access to Internet
> from the PC when Amiga is connected to 'net.
> 
> I  am  not thoroughly familiar with networking stuff and I have only a
> vague  idea  how  this  would  be  done.  I know that I need to add an
> appropriate  route  (route  add  default  <gateway>) on the PC and the
> Amiga  must  function as a gateway.  Knowing these I tried (recompiled
> Amiga kernel with GATEWAY enabled) but failed.
> 
> First I tried on the PC   route add default wahoo
> (wahoo  is the name of the Amiga).  After this networking on PC ceased
> to work at all until I deleted that particular route.  Then I tried to

	What command did you use to add the route?
	Can yo include the output of 'netstat -rn' on both machines
	before and after the command (it _should_ work)

> add a route through wahoo to that computer to which wahoo is connected
> through PPP (194.251.131.20) and attempted to ping it from PC but this
> did  not  work  either (no ping packet was replied).  Using netstat on
> Amiga  I  saw  that  the  ping  packets  PC  sent got to the Amiga but
> apparently it did nothing with them.
> 
> So, if someone could help me and tell how do I get this thing going.

		David/absolute

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