[NTLUG:Discuss] nic and @home problems

[Rauschuber, Chris]

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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