On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:01:58 +0000 (GMT) "Mark Evans"
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As a head of ICT I have 1 ex-army technician who is self taught. We could not afford anyone who is LINUX able. I've spent many hours trying to get Apache/Squid to work, only to work out eventually that it was the addressing system forced on us by the old Acorn kit that stopped Squid from working.
Squid and for that matter just about anything else is quite happy using either 1.0.0.0/8 or 1.0.128.0/24
Ah yes it does, unfortunatly old acorns insist they use class A addresses and then zoom off and use seemingly odd default IP addresses. As most of these old machines had no hard disk it prooved impossible to set up IP stacks to give them valid IP addresses, hence no Squid.
1.0.0.0/8 works with IP masqurading just as well as 10.0.0.0/8. I sould know, as I've been running a network using this kind of IP addressing for the last 3 and a half years. It's quite trivial to either give everything else IP addresses within the same network or to run multiple IP networks on the same physical piece of ethernet. Anyway the AUN addressing is quite systematic, even if you have Acorn bridges and gateways on the network. In the simplist case it will always be 1.0.128.<station number> even in the more complex cases it's most likely to be 1.0.<network>.<station> (network >128 is econet, network <=128 is ethernet, can't recall where Nexus fits in here.) Anyway AUN over ethernet is simply econet encapsulated in a UDP packet (always to and from port 32768.) -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763