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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 22:16:03 -0400 (AST)
From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: "Helio Coelho Jr. - CompuLand Informatica" <compland@ism.com.br>
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Subject: Re: slip dedicated connection
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On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Helio Coelho Jr. - CompuLand Informatica wrote:

> Hi:
> 
>     I have a small problem... 
>     I just conected two boxes with slattach. So far so good... I can ping
> from one to another, etc... One of this boxes is connected, through ethernet,
> to a router and the Internet. The problem is that the machine connected with
> slip, cannot resolve any address. I know that's a routing problem, but until
> now I could not figure where I'm goofing...
> 
> The situation:
> 
>    machine1 ed2 ip 200.255.96.24 netmask 255.255.255.224 (8 subnets of 30 ips)
>             slip 200.255.96.28 (sl0)
> 
>    machine2 slip ip 200.255.96.29 (sl0)
>   
>    I've defined the following routes:
>    mach1: (running routed -q )
>          route add 200.255.96.28 127.0.0.1
>          route add 200.255.96.29 200.255.96.28
> 
>    mach2: (running routed -q)
>          route add 200.255.96.29 127.0.0.1
>          route add 200.255.96.28 200.255.96.28
>          route add default 200.255.96.28
> 
>    I can ping each other. Mach1 resolves addresses just fine.
> But mach2 do not resolve anything and just pings to mach1 . 
> I've tried to change the default route from mach2 to 200.255.96.24 
> (the ip of mach1's ethernet), but no lucky.
> I was wondering if I need to run the slip machines addresses in another
> subnet...
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated !
>

	Have you enabled 'gateway' in /etc/sysconfig on the slip-host
machine?