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Re: 95 sharing over TCP/IP
On Sun, 3 May 1998, Miki Shapiro wrote:
> > no, unless you set this linux box as a bridge. as far as i know, when a
> > win95 machine is "looking for machines", it's sending a broadcast message
> > and that won't pass over to the other side of the linux box unless it's
> > set to act as a bridge.
>
> Does any1 know which HOWTO handles configuring the linux box as such a
> bridge? Im ready to RTFM, just wanna know what :)
>
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Hi,
I put alot of sweat into this already.
You have to subnet so that you have different networks on either side of
the linux box. If you don't, then the kernel routing algorithm wont pass
packets from one side to the other. The linux bridge code has this same
limitation since it depends on kernel routing.
If you set up the kernel to forward packets and for some reason it
doesn't seem to be forwarding when you think it should, you probably have
a routing problem. To solve it, first make sure that from one side you can
ping to the far interface on the linux box. Then on the other side make sure
you can ping to the far side. If you can do both of these, then you should
be able to ping out and back from either side (assuming you are not
masquerading).
- yba
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