[NTLUG:Discuss] nic and @home problems

[cb]

We are using an old pentium-100 machine a a gateway/router for our three
machines here; i assigned each machine a static IP  forget about
DHCP--too much trouble at this point.

cb


"Rauschuber, Chris" wrote:
> 
> So it's Cable Modem -> Hub -> 3 machines on 192.168.1.0 network?
> 
> I don't have cable modem anymore, but when I did, I noticed that the setup
> would not work if the modem was directly connected to a hub.  Could've just
> been the modem I had, though(RCA).
> 
> Would definately help if you had a router/firewall box to masquerade the
> other 3 machines.  I doubt that you'd be able to DHCP 3 machines on the same
> cable modem.
> See www.linuxrouter.org.
> 
> Chris
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: surya at hex.net [mailto:surya at hex.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 10:40 AM
> > To: discuss at ntlug.org
> > Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] nic and @home problems
> >
> >
> > Hi:
> >
> > I am trying to connect my box running linux-mandrake 7.2 with
> > @Home. I am able
> > to configure the eth0 interface and it does show up when I do
> > a ifconfig and a
> > netstat -r. I used netconf to assign the host name, DNS
> > server names etc. While
> > I am able to ping the machine with the IP address i give to
> > the eth0 interface,
> > I cannot reach anything outside the box.
> >
> > This is a short summary of what I did:
> >
> > # insmod rtl8139
> > # ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
> > # route add default eth0
> >
> > after that i went into netconf and gave it the host name, DNS
> > server address
> > etc. I check all the related .conf files.
> >
> > If i ping 192.168.1.10 it goes through. But if try to ping
> > anything else it
> > just fails.
> >
> > I tried using dhclient to see if it is able to reach @Home's
> > DHCP server but to
> > no avail.
> >
> > Another thing that I noticed is that every time I reboot, the
> > eth0 interface
> > fails to come up and I have to manually bring up that interface.
> >
> > This is my setup, I have a a nic connected to a hub,
> > connected to a cable
> > modem. I have two other windows boxes connected to the hub,
> > which I turned off
> > as I first wanted to get the linux box working. The windows
> > boxes work fine.
> >
> > I think I am missing some key procedure in this. Can someone
> > please tell me
> > what I am doing wrong?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Surya
> >
> >
> >
> >
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