OK, I consider myself a reasonably competent BeOS user. OTOH, I can't for
the life of me get NAT working for my home LAN. I'm hoping some of you
would be willing to give me some hints. :-)
I have three computers on the LAN; two BeOS machines (192.168.0.1 and
192.168.0.5), and one Windows 98 machine (192.168.0.2). I'll be using
192.168.0.5 as my main system from now on, so I wanted to use that as a
NAT gateway. I can ping, telnet, and FTP between all of these machines
with no problem.
I downloaded NAT and unzipped it on 192.168.0.5. The instructions on this
official page:
http://www.rickb.com/ricksoft/nat.html
say (among other things) to copy the executable "nat" to
/boot/beos/system/add-ons/net_server, which I did. I left the rest of the
unzipped files where I'd unzipped them. I then went into Be ->
Preferences -> Network, click on the Services tab, clicked "IP Forward" to
make it checked, and restarted networking. So far, so good.
I then went into both of the other computers, and set up the preferences
in both of them to use 192.168.0.5 as their gateway. Windows required a
complete system reboot, of course, while BeOS only needed to restart
networking. OK.
I then went into the .5 computer and (after setting it up to see itself as
the gateway), fired up dial-up networking and connected to the internet.
No dice. Neither of the other computers can so much as ping the outside
world.
What might I be doing wrong? Any help, suggestions, or requests for
further information would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
--
Brent P. Newhall
About.com "Focus on BeOS" Guide, beos.about.com
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