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In a post last week I mentioned that my ppp0 connection would keep dropping whenever IP_Forwarding was enabled. Over the weekend I was trying again to get it sorted out.  I was using a Windows computer to test with, and I got it working perfectly.  I thought everything was cool, until I connected my MacBook again, and the connection started dropping, like it did before.  I really don't know what a Mac would be doing differently, but it just doesn't work (WiFi and Ethernet do the same thing). The plan was to put a different OS on the MacBook anyway, so I decided to do that, and then see if it worked. I did not manage to do this ether.  The optical drive in the MacBook is giving trouble.  It wont accept any disk.  It will sometimes the MacBook Installation Disk, but it wont work with any other disk I tried. I had burned the Arch Linux installation disk from the Windows computer, so I wanted to try burn the disk from the MacBook, but it would...

I have been wanting to write a post for a while, where I go through each app I have on my iPod Touch, and then find an equivalent for my Android Cell Phone.  I have not had time to do this yet, but it is on it's way. I have mostly been busy with moving. I am busy moving in with friends at the moment, maybe there will be more on that sometime, who knows. Another mini project I am looking at is putting Linux onto my MacBook to start playing with that again.  I installed Debian on my MacMini a week or two ago as well.  It is running, and I can get it online, but as soon as I enable IP_Forwarding the ppp0 connection goes up and down.  There are a few things I want to try, to see if I can sort this out.  I have been using iptables for forwarding, but I can also try other things (I really know nothing about NAT and Masquerading, etc).  It looks like something called iproute2 might be an option.  I can also try changing the MTU of the ppp0...