Re: 2 network cards
On Sat, 8 May 1999, MR wrote:
> I have two network cards (1 Intel etherexpress 16, 1 NE2000) in a debian
> system. Both are detected on boot up and both are ifconfig'd. This system
> will be used to connect my little LAN through IP masq to the Internet. For
> various reasons, I am only able to have 1 IP, so that is why I am messing
> around with all this. My problem is that I can not ping another machine on
> my internal LAN from the linux box. The internal LAN is numbered
> 192.168.1.x (with the linux box being .1 and the one I am trying to ping
> .3) eth0 is my "external" card and eth1 is the internal one. If I set up a
> route for the internal lan (route add -net 192.168.1.0 eth1) I can ping
> 192.168.1.1 (itself), but get a "ping: sendto: Operation not permitted"
> when trying to ping another machine on the internal lan. Any ideas? I have
> tried pinging the linux box from the other machine (which runs Win98). I
> get both activity lights going like they should on the hub and on a card
> from each computer, so the connection is there. Thanks in advance.
Have you also set up the netmask and broadcast address for eth1?
In your case, try netmask=255.255.255.0 and broadcast=192.168.1.255.
Remco
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