On 8/21/06, Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> wrote:
>
> On Monday 21 August 2006 08:38, fei huang wrote:
>
> > did I miss something? or the guide is just incomplete?
>
> I see you are directly connecting the real host to the virtual host using
> tuntap (eg, you don't use uml_switch).


I would like the most direct and easy way to access the network, seems the
uml_switch needs just a lot more steps to set up the network... not sure
though.

You probably need to enable forwarding (and possibly masquerading) on the
> real box:
>
> iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>
> The guide DOES mention this, in the section "using an existing network".


yep, that's why I get so frustrated, I did exactly the same as what the
guide instructs..
any other posibilities that may cause the problem?

HTH
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> thank you so much..
daniel