Subject: Re: IP router/gateway
To: Jorge Ivan Rodriguez <yod@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
From: Andrew Watson <awatson@lab.housing.fsu.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/09/1996 17:55:35
>I have a Mac PPP connection.
>
>Is there a way to find out my IP router/gateway?
>
>The MacTCP "gateway" box has my IP address in it and I know that can't be
>my router?
you could run traceroute from a unix box to your machine. that would tell
you a lot.
if you are the only machine connected to that ppp connection, you are the
"router" because nothing else goes through you machine
but if you have an ethernet between a few machines and you are using packet
forwarding (like i am except that the router is running os/2) then the
machine that is connected to the ppp/slip is the router.
hope this helps. mactcpwatcher does not have a "find router" type function
but it would be cool if it could behave like traceroute. if it does
actually do this and i am ignorant please inform me. i was thinking of
porting traceroute to MacOS just for fun...
andy
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