Re: Routing with Debian?

[Alain Toussaint <alaint@boisfrancs.qc.ca>]

> The router finds the hardware (or MAC) address by broadcasting a request
> to the network.  It basicly asks "Does anybody here know what the MAC
> address is for the interface <ip-address>." and someone will respond with
> it.
> 
> As for your routing problem ... do you have a "real" IP address assigned
> to that laptop?  If you are using something like 192.168.x.x it is not
> going to work.  Also, you need to use an IP address that is part of the
> network that the router is set up to route for.  If you try to give it
> just any IP address, maybe one you have been given by an ISP for a
> dedicated dialup, the router will most likely ignore it because it is
> outside the range of the network that it routes data for. 

i have a question,if there's 192.168.x.x type address and the server's
kernel is compiled with ip masquerading,does the laptop would then be able
to access the internet ??

also,you ( job@abc.se ) could check if there's a resolv.conf file in your
/etc directory and make it's correctly configured,other than that,i could
not help further because of lack of knowledge in networking (i'm in the
learning stage tough)

Alain



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