<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Etaoin Shrdlu</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org">shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Monday 21 August 2006 08:38, fei huang wrote:<br><br>&gt; did I miss something? or the guide is just incomplete?<br><br>I see you are directly connecting the real host to the virtual host using<br>tuntap (eg, you don't use uml_switch).
</blockquote><div><br>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.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
You probably need to enable forwarding (and possibly masquerading) on the<br>real box:<br><br>iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE<br>echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward<br><br>The guide DOES mention this, in the section &quot;using an existing network&quot;.
</blockquote><div><br>yep, that's why I get so frustrated, I did exactly the same as what the guide instructs..<br>any other posibilities that may cause the problem? <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
HTH<br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org">gentoo-user@gentoo.org</a> mailing list<br><br></blockquote></div>thank you so much..<br>daniel<br>