Here is my situation: I want to connect a laptop to the Internet using a PLIP connection to my Ethernet-connected workstation. This pretty much sums up what I have tried (except for those ifconfig's):
on laptop: route add <workstation-ip> plip0 route add default gw <workstation-ip> on workstation: route add <laptop-ip> plip0 arp -s <laptop-ip> <workstation-hw-addr> I can ping any host on the LAN from that laptop now (including our router), but I can't access the outside world. This is the first time I do this and I have probably understood something wrong. A question: How does the router know that the hardware address of the laptop's IP (which normally belongs to another workstation that I have turned off) has changed? Previously I have switched Ethernet cards in a workstation and I had no problems accessing the Internet. How did the router find out the address had changed? Is there some sort of broadcast protocol that works the other way around, like: "i am <hw-addr> and I have IP <ip-addr>"? Is this the key? The laptop is running bo and the workstation a mix of bo and hamm. Thanks for any explanations here (I've read NAG and NET3-HOWTO)... // Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2:201/262.37] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
