Pardon me for asking a dumb newbie question, but this has been giving me conniptions for the past few weeks, and I've checked the FAQs without success. I have configured an older Pentium-class machine as a packet-filtering router and Internet gateway using ipchains. I've hung a Windows 2000 machine behind the router and gotten to the Internet with no problems. I can ping the gateway, and all seems fine. The gateway's IP address is 192.168.0.1; the Win 2000 laptop's is 192.168.0.3. I've built a second Linux box, which I would like to make an Apache and file server at some point. (I would also like for my kids to be able to access the Web from this box.) I've configured networking, giving this box 192.168.0.2, and I tried using my gateway's IP address. When I try to ping the gateway machine, I get Destination Unreachable messages. Can anybody shed some light on this for me? Following is my configuration info and the routing info for the second box: Host name: files IP address: 192.168.0.2 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Default gateway: 192.168.0.1 Enable routing: deselected (I've tried both ways) Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.2 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 I've tried manually changing the routing table as well, to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John Johnson - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
