NAME
MacGated - Establish an Appletalk-IP route to the IPDDP device.
SYNOPSIS
MacGated [-s] -i IP address [-i IP address...]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the MacGated command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
MacGated is a daemon that automatically adds and deletes routes to Macintosh computers on an Appletalk-IP network. For each Mac that comes onto the network to do IP, MacGated will create a route for it and spawn a child called MacPinger(8). MacPinger(8) pings the Mac every 45 seconds to see if the Mac is still doing IP. If the Mac does not respond then the route to that Mac is deleted.
OPTIONS
A summary of options are included below.
- -s
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The -s directive tells MacGated to scan for Macintoshes that have already registered an Appletalk IPADDRESS node and include their IP in MacGate's routing tables for IP gatewaying. In short it is a good idea to enable this option.
- -i IP address
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Specifies the IP address of an interface to use as a gateway. MacGated can accept an unlimited number of -i directives. The -i command makes MacGated register that IP number as a IPGATEWAY on the Appletalk network. The best rule of thumb for this is to always register the IP of the ipddp0 device and then also register the IP of your main interface. (ie. eth0). You may have to play with some different combinations if your GNU/Linux system has many interfaces, but even registering everyone of your machines IPs will not hurt anything.
SEE ALSO
MacRegister(8) MacPinger(8) MacRoute(8)
For more information on using the IPDDP device see Documentation/networking/ipddp.txt in the kernel source code, which explains more precisly on how to get the IPDDP device working.
AUTHOR
The MacGate suite was written by Jay Schulist <[email protected]> and is copyrighted under the GNU General Public License. This manual page was adapted from the source code of MacGated.c and the INSTALL.txt document by David Huggins-Daines <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.