Potato networking
Well, I've done a complete clean installation of potato from the five
floppy images over a cable connection. Thanks for all the help.
I'm in the process of recompiling my kernel to enable IP Masq, but I have
another problem. I cannot get my computer to use more than one interface
at a time with potato's interface setup.
I've read the interfaces manpage, and that helped me to create this
/etc/network/interfaces file:
# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
# The loopback interface
iface lo inet loopback
# The first network card
iface eth0 inet dhcp
# The second network card
iface eth1 inet static
address 172.16.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 172.16.1.255
network 172.16.1.0
gateway 172.16.1.1
I can use ifup for only one of my ethernet interfaces at a time. If both
are running, I can't ping anything, either local (eth1) or non-local
(eth0). I have to have dhcpcd runnning to send this, and ifconfig -a
shows:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:C9:91:19:B1
inet addr:24.124.60.7 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:34073 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:18195 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:4 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xc000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:95:42:55:3B
inet addr:172.16.1.1 Bcast:172.16.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
BROADCAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:59 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe800
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
LOOPBACK MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
Thanks for any suggestions, once again. I promised my wife I'd have the
network back up and online this evening. ;-)
John
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