Linux-Hams archive - January 1998: RE: Ax25 and IP Masq?

RE: Ax25 and IP Masq?

Rich Mulvey (eprizia@rnein.net)
Thu, 01 Jan 1998 11:22:25 -0500 (EST)


On 31-Dec-97 CRiSiS wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to the list and want to know if someone has gotten the AX25 to
> work
> together with IP masq. I am currently running kernel 2.0.33 with the
> module
> 13 patch. When i run this kernel,
> my IP-Masq doesn't work anymore? And when i try to make the radio-device,
> i
> get this :
>
> [root@linux /root]# ifconfig sl0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
> 27.137.19.255
> SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
> SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device
>
> I'm using RedHat 4.2.
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>

IP Masquarading and AX.25 work fine together. Based on the error
message that you're getting, it looks like you forgot to add SLIP support
into your new kernel.

- Rich

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Rich Mulvey                                         
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