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On 22 Aug 08 at 10:48, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
<baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:

>> client machine does not ping to 10.0.0.138 and 
>> has no connection to the internet
>
>There are two possible reasons for this:
>(1) the GW machine is not set for IP forwarding
>(2) the wireless router does not know how to
>    find the client machine
>
>To fix (1) echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ip_forward

Here I expirienced an interesting error. The system (BL3.5 out of
the box, only with mc.tgz added) tells me, that the 
directory (!) /proc/sys/net/ip_forward does not exist. 

>To fix (2) tell the wireless router where 
>to send traffic addressed to 192.168.1.2  
>--------------------------------- 
>route add 192.168.1.2 gw 10.0.0.2
>---------------------------------
>The question is:  are you able to edit the
>routing table for the wireless router?

This will be a problem. The router has been set up by my neighbour at 
the 4th floor. But if necessary, I would be able to convince him 
to change the configuration of the dhcp server  or the routing table. 
He just will not have the time to correct all my other mistakes and 
explain to me what a network is ;-) 

Christof

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