Re: Win & Potato on LAN
If you are absolutly sure the network settings are correct, and you can
ping 192.168.0.2 from the winblowz machine sounds like could be a
cabling problem or a hub problem. id try swapping the cables around to
see if the problem shows up on the linux box with the cable from the
win* box. if it doesn't im not sure what to suggest other then
installing a small copy of linux on the win* box to see if that works(if
it does at least u know its a software problem)
also check the firewall rules on the linux box, there is a package
called ipmasq which has driven me insane in the past by changing all the
firewall policys to DENY blocking every incoming and outgoing packet to
the system
run ipchains -L
to list the rules
if you see things that say "policy DENY"
then i would suggest running:
ipchains -F (kills the firewall rules)
ipchains -P input ACCEPT
ipchains -P output ACCEPT
that will allow all incoming and outgoing data traffic, it's safe to
leave the forward chain alone for now. see if that helps, if it does i
would reccomend removing the ipmasq package by doing 'dpkg -r ipmasq',
adding masqing abilities to the system is just a couple lines of
commands and that package is overkill(IMO)
nate
Vitux wrote:
>
> I know this is sort of off-topic, but some of you guys must have
> done this:
> My machine (Potato): combined dial-up-server (routing thru the
> ppp-isdn-link) and workstation.
> Wife's machine: winblows for wife's work and kid's games.
> Both machines equipped with identical RealTek8029PCI nics, hooked up
> with RJ45-cable and a small 5-port hub.
>
> Potato works fine with ne2k-driver as module. (thanks to a lot of
> you guys!)
> When I ping winblows, the hub flashes, but all packets are lost.
> So it seems Potato is fine, but winblows isn't?!.
> The setup is:
> Potato: 192.168.0.1, netmask 255.255.255.0
> Winblows: 192.168.0.2, netmask 255.255.255.0
>
> Potato can ping itself and seems to "get out" as well.
> Winblows can ping itself, but nothing outside.
> On winblows, I've set the IP-address in ControlPanel-Networking (I
> think it's called that in english; wife's on a danish version...),
> and told it to use lan for internet-connections (explorer-settings).
> However, if I ping Potato, I get "cannot access host".
>
> I've tried different values for the netmask and adresses, to no
> avail. Winblows seems to have a dozen places to put stuff.
> I'm really getting to like the Linux way of doing it; I must have
> set about 2 conf-files before I was running. (besides recompiling a
> new kernel...)
>
> Anyone got a clue on this one?
> Best Regards
> Vitux
>
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