Hi David, on Wed, 17 Jan 2001 21:47:05 -0500 you wrote:
> > What you need is for the Amiga to change the headers of the IP packets
> > from the PC as they go out so that the source IP will be the IP of the
> > Amiga's PPP interface. Then when they come back in, the Amiga would
have
> > to translate them back again and pass the appropriate ones on to the
PC.
> Now you mention it I remember that being the problem, and hence the need
for
> proxies. They effectively do the same as NAT for specific services.
Yes, if you only want to use a limited number of services on the PC (e.g.
web) then you can run a proxy on the Amiga (e.g. HTTPProxy). That's a
much simpler way, it doesn't involve any actual routing of packets - the
PC is not 'connected' to the net.
> > I do it the other way round - routing the Amiga through a PC running
> > Linux. It's easy that way round, I dunno about NAT on the Amiga.
> I have a PC running linux too, but haven't yet got the modem recognised
on
> it. Why is it so damn complicated on Linux to set the port for an
internal
> modem, bar humbug. I'll stop now before this gets too OT.
Um, it really *really* isn't hard, I assure you :) E-mail me privately if
you need a hand.
Tim
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