I think I know what's the problem. If your connecting two machines directly you need to use a crossover ethernet cable. are you using one? -- A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!" On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Lorenzo Prince wrote: > HELP!!!!! > > I've looked everywhere I can think of and I can't even get my PC and > laptop to talk to each other. I configured my PC's eth1 with the address > 192.168.0.1 and the laptop's eth0 to use the address 192.168.0.2. I set > the laptop to use 192.168.0.1 as the gateway. I set up masquerading on > the PC. But I can't even ping the PC from the laptop or the laptop from > the pc, and they are directly connected with a standard network cable. > What am I missing here? Did I buy the wrong cable or something? > > Lorenzo > > E Pluribus Unix > > Doug staggered into view and mumbled: > > > Lorenzo, > > > > > I am running Slackware 9.0 on both computers ... > > > > What you probably want is to use the 192.168.0.x > > IP address scheme for the PC and laptop. These > > addresses are reserved for 'internal' ie not real > > IP addresses. Then you will set up IP masquerading > > on the PC, which will connect to the net. There > > are lots of docs on how to set up masquerading. > > For disk sharing, yes you probably want to use > > nfs although there are many alternatives these > > days. As with masquerading, there are lots of > > docs on how to set up NFS. In the slackware > > install you'll see some NFS tools, one being > > the NFS daemons, you want those on the server > > (PC). It may take a while to get all of this > > working (masq and nfs) but it will work very > > reliably once you are done. If you wanted to > > add a windows box to the same internal lan > > you could run samba on the server (PC) for > > disk sharing, and for internet the PC just > > acts like a gateway (nothing special to do > > other than configure ethernet). > > > > I suggest that you set up your PC as the IP > > 192.168.0.1, it will be the gateway. Then > > set up the laptop as 192.168.0.2 and set > > the gateway to 192.168.0.1. Read the docs > > on IP maquerading for how to configure that. > > Try a google search, there are lots of docs. > > Some show very simple setups including > > exactly what you want to do (just connect > > two PCs for sharing interney connection). > > > > -- Doug > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Lorenzo > > > > > >E Pluribus Unix > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Speakup mailing list > > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
