Re: Network Address Translation

[tron%lyssa.owl.de@localhost (Matthias Scheler)]

In article <199801120744.IAA18365%analytik.analytikerna.se@localhost>,
        "Håkan Thörngren" <hth%analytik.analytikerna.se@localhost> writes:
> map ppp0 n.n.n.n/24 -> 0/32

That won't work.

> where n.n.n.n is the IP address for the ethernet on the Amiga.

With a trailing zero?

> I have also tried to replace 0 with my dynamically allocated IP address
> on ppp0, and the IP address for the other side of ppp0, ...

That's the right way. You can use "/etc/ppp/ip-up" and "/etc/ppp/ip-down"
to let this happen automatically.

> ... but it just won't work.  What am I missing?

IP forwarding needs to be activated to get IP NAT to work. So you have
either to turn it on via "sysctl" or better compile a kernel with
the "GATEWAY" option turned on.

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/