--- name: "MacGated" section: "8" platform: "linux" package: "macgate" version: "1.14-5" release: "Debian 2.2 (Potato)" platforms: ["linux"] url: "https://new.carta.tech/MacGated" --- # MacGated(8) Establish an Appletalk-IP route to the IPDDP device. ## 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.md).** **[MacPinger(8)](/MacPinger/8.md)** 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** 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*** 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)](/MacRegister/8.md) [**MacPinger**(8)](/MacPinger/8.md) [**MacRoute**(8)](/MacRoute/8.md) 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 \ 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 \, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.