Hi Managers
Thanks for the replies, I've got two replies from Anthony A. D. Talltree
and Nikola Milutnovic &
here are the replies respectively :-
>is it possible for any workstation or a PC on one side of the network to
>access the other side of the network through the ppp connection? i.e. is
>the connection a single user at a time ?
Yes. You get an IP link that for most purposes is just like an
ethernet, only slower.
>I think I have to configure both of the systems as a gateway for it's
>network.
Depending on the PPP implementation, it should do that for you.
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You need two things to setup:
1. Setup basic packet forwarding.
You need to setup both PPP ends to (attempt to) forward packets that are
not
addressed to them - see iprsetup.
2. Setup routing information exchange.
You need to decide which routing protocol you wish to run and which
daemon
should handle it. The most common and most simple is RIP run by routed.
More
complex, but infinitely more configurable, is gated. It takes some time
to learn
how to set it up, but you can setup anything with it. And I mean,
anything.
Anything you can think of.
Nix.
Received on Sat May 06 2000 - 05:37:36 NZST