Hi Steve,
Just a quick note to say that you don't need to reboot the
machine in either of the instances below.
Also I didn't comment on this earlier, but using proxy arp is a
botch and shouldn't be done. Ideally you want the serial port
to be on a different subnet from the lan.
Regards,
S
>First, many thanks to everyone that wrote. I really appreciate
it! :)
>
>Those of you who suggested IP Forwarding (Soyeb, Sander, and
there may have been
>one another)... that pretty much did the trick!
>
>With IP Forwarding enabled on the Linux PPP server (by setting
>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to "1", and then rebooting), my
amiga could now
>ping the router AND see the Internet!
>
>But, there was another problem... I could not see the other
machine (a Win98
>box) on my local LAN. Per Sander's suggestion, I added
"proxyarp" to the
>/etc/ppp/options file on my PPP server (linux), and restarted
the linux box, and
>it worked! My ppp interface was now part of the local LAN, and
I could see the
>Win98 box!
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