Quoting Fred Wright (23-Jan-00 03:43:58):
>> But since I would like to access the Internet via the Gateway
>> (Amiga), I have to use eth0 on both PCs. Here comes the problem.
>> Can the PC detect somehow that the ppp0 dial-up interface on the
>> Amiga is online?
> Not without also triggering DoD, unless you had a special server to
> chack the status.
> With DoD disabled, any attempt to connect to an outside IP address
> should give a "Network Unreachable" ICMP error. Whether this has
> the right effect on the RC5 client I don't know.
Hmmm ... the RC5 client will write this message if the IP address it
tries to send the packages to (receives from) is not reachable.
>> - My ISP provides me with 2 DNS addresses. Must I enter both in the
>> PC
>> Network TCP/IP DNS configuration, or is it sufficient to add only
>> one?
> Normally one is sufficient, and the second one is a backup in case
> the first server is down. But since the PC supports multiple DNS
> addresses, I see no reason *not* to enter them both.
This might now be a real dummy question, but why do the computers on
the LAN require the DNS entry(entries) since the Gateway has the
addresses already ???
>> - MiamiDX goes online everytime I logon with the PC (WinNT SP6). I
>> have MiamiDx configured to auto-connect for any traffiy (from
>> suspended or offline). I don't know why MiamiDx goes online when
>> I logon with the PC. Any ideas?
> The PC does DNS lookups every time it sneezes. :-) Holger added a
> feature to MiamiDx that makes it possible to write a program that
> implements more complex rules for DoD, but writing such a program is
> left as an exercoise for the reader.
If the reader would understand what goes on, he would probably do so ;)
> One thing you might do is check on the traffic with MiamiTCPDump.
> You might get lucky and have something that could be blocked by a
> filter condition, although that would require manual filter entries,
> which aren't well documented yet and also may not interact very well
> with the automatic firewall and IP-NAT setup. Also, blocking things
> with a filter will add delay to the PC since it will need to time
> out the lack of response.
Arghhh ... !!!
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