SLIP and Masquerading

Jason Faultless (jxfaultl@bechtel.com)
Fri, 29 May 1998 12:48:17 +0100 (BST)

Is there some inherent reason why you can't masquerade via a SLIP
connection ?

I've been running my internet connection via SLIP for years with no
problems until I recently tried to masquerade an internal machine
over the link. Everything apparently worked fine, except that
connections were lost after only a small amount of data had been
exchanged.

The problem occured with every kernel I tried from 2.1.95 through to 2.1.103

Switching to PPP instantly cured the problem and I'm now running happily
with 2.1.103

Nothing I read mentioned anything about this, so I was wondering if there
was some inherent problem (mtu's etc ?)

-- 
Jason.


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