Routing in Genesis

[patrik]

@motorollin:

You first need to enable Genesis to forward packages so the packages can get to the router, then you have to add a route-entry in your router, so the router knows that the 192.168.1.0 network is behing your A1200 (10.0.0.178).

I believe the answer is quite the same, or?

Anyhow, the basic rule is that all parties that are communicating need to know how to get packages to the other. In this case, if Genesis on your A1200 has package-forwarding enabled (acts as a gateway), your Shapeshifter Mac has the AmigaOS/Genesis side set as the default gateway, which knows how to get to the router, but when a package arrives at your router from the Shapeshifter Mac, your router doesn't know that the 192.168.1.x network is beside your A1200, so it will just send the reply to its default gateway which is your ISP . This is why the routing-entry is needed on the router.


@buzz:

Genesis is able to act as a normal gateway, but you are talking about NAT which is used by gateways make several hosts share the gateway's ip-address externally, which isn't needed in this case as it is on his own network, where he has full control over the ip-addresses.


/Patrik

[patrik]

@motorollin:

Why not just run both Genesis and the Mac TCP/IP stack on the same network card? This will remove the overhead of vlink. The only issue is that you will have two IPs, but as you have a local network with the same router, that shouldn't matter to you.

Still, the classic Mac TCP/IP stack is very slow and should be the absolute biggest bottleneck.


/Patrik

[patrik]

@motorollin:

Yes you can. The Sana2 standard supports that several network-stacks use the same device.


/Patrik

[patrik]

It works fine here with an Ariadne card.

The only thing which could make it not work is if the Sana2-device for your card isn't implemented by the standard and lacks support for more than one network-stack.


/Patrik