> > > > > > Saturn also acts as a gateway for IP-Masqerading, and so > > > already has support for IP forwarding. I don't want to compile support > > > > I think that's the point. If I were you, I would check if earth isn't > > masqeraded, because the symptoms are like it is. > > I'm not sure what you mean by this. Earth is masqueraded when saturn's ppp > link > is up. I can't see how the masquerading would make any difference though... > saturn is the gateway for both earth and comet, and should be forwarding > packets > between the eth0 and plip0 interfaces.
are you sure it does masquerading both for 192.168.1.x and 192.168.2.x and not just for 192.168.1.x? I'm not sure, but i think the most basic masquerading setup does masquerading of the local network for _all_ other hosts. And you have to remember that a masqueraded host canot be pinged nor connected to in any way! (as the name suggests, unless you have port forwarding rules to enable this) > > > However I'm not sure > > because you have provided no informaion about your other boxes, other > > saturn's interfaces and the masquerading setup???! > > All of saturn's interfaces are on the diagram, except for the ppp link which > is > a dialup internet connection. Saturn masquerades this connection to earth and > any other computer on 192.168.1.x. > > As it happens, last night I managed to get it working. I just don't know how > it > happened... I turned everything on, and suddenly I was able to telnet and ftp > from comet to earth (I did not change any settings, and used the same scripts > I > had previously written to bring up the plip link). I managed to install the > packages I wanted, after fiddling with anonftp on earth and apt.sources on > comet. Curiously, later on the plip link once again refused to work. Could the > order that things initialise be influencing plip? I repeat, i know nothing about things specific to PLIP, but the only thing that would change the situation seems to be some modification of routing information. (read: i still suspect the masquerading - wasn't it when the modem connected when the plip refused to work?) Also: if A side of a PLIP link sees the B side but not the other way round, it's not the fault of PLIP link. It's the routing information. Marcin -- -------------------------------- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------
