> > "Brian M. Rectanus" wrote: > >> > >> At 09:38 AM 11/22/97 +0000, Chuma Agbodike wrote: > >> >Do diald and ipmasquerading serve the same purpose ? > >> >Or do I have to use both ? I have a 3 node ethernet lan. > >> >The all had windows on them. Now I installed Linux 2.0.29 (debian 1.3) > >> >on the unit that has the modem on it. And would like the other units > >> >to access the internet via the modem on LINUX unit. > >> >So I have diald running on the linux. The windows node have the > >> >linux unit as their gateway. But if I ping an IP diald doesn't dial. > > > >You cannot ping an IP. You have to ping an address that must be looked up > >like: > > > >server.no.where.net > > > >Otherwise diald assumes that the ip in on your local net and no dial is > >nessasary. > > I don't understand what you are saying here. Diald works on the basis of > IP addresses only. If you ping a name, the very first thing that happens > is that gethostbyname() is called to look up the IP address from the name. > That _may_ involve a nameserver lookup across the network or it may be > relovable from cached data. If it is not cached it will send a query to > external nameservers, and that will cause diald to start the link. > Equally, diald will start the link if it receives any other kind of > packet for a remote site, provided that you have your routing correct. > (Don't forget that it has to call the nameserver itself in that manner.)
Ah, Basically I mean that I could not get diald to work with a ping to an IP. diald seems to only want to come up for something requiring a name lookup. Of course, now that I think of it, this is probably because I have a dynamic IP from my ISP... -Brian > > -- > Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver > > PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 > > > -- Brian Rectanus Kansas State University Computing and Informational Sciences Multimedia/Web Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~trojan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .