Hello having a spot of bother.... I have just built a new box as follows Mandrake 7.1 Cyrix M2 333MHz (I know - cyrix - but it only cost me £20 so I wasn't gonna say no) 128 Ram ppp0 = External Dynamode modem eth0 = Via-rhine
this is on 10.10.10.200 netmask 255.255.255.0
this machine connects to the net fine (tada! here I am)
I also have (don't hit me please) a Win2K workstation (10.10.10.100), both are on 10Mbs LAN and ftp, http and SMB is fine between the two.
Win2K machine is looking to 10.10.10.200 for web pages (for example) but is not getting any further i.e. getting no imformation from 10.10.10.200's ppp0 connection. ppp0 was set up in linuxconf rather than kppp and connects fine at boot and the "set default route" option is checked. I have no default route set as Linuxconf help suggested not to for ppp connections as they sort it themselves
What haven't I done?? or what have I done wrong?? which processes should I look for to be running that probably aren't??
any help and sympathy appreciated
Dave
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 10:06:58PM +0100, David Howe wrote:
Win2K machine is looking to 10.10.10.200 for web pages (for example) but is not getting any further i.e. getting no imformation from 10.10.10.200's ppp0 connection. ppp0 was set up in linuxconf rather than kppp and connects fine at boot and the "set default route" option is checked. I have no default route set as Linuxconf help suggested not to for ppp connections as they sort it themselves
As you have 10.something addresses on your LAN, simple IP forwarding will not be enough to enable the machines on your LAN to access the internet using the Linux box as a gateway.
If you are only interested in web access then you could install a web proxy server like squid or wwwoffle on the Linux box and configure you LAN client to use the Linux box as a web proxy. This is an especially useful arrangement if you have more than one LAN client as the proxy can cache things and the cache is shared by all the clients.
For other protocols (mail, news, games etc.) you will need to configure IP masquerading on the Linux box. There is a HOWTO on this at the Linux documentation project site (http://www.linuxdoc.org/)
Steve.
If I understand you corectly, you want to connect your win2k box through your 10.10.10.200 machine and onto the internet? if so, a simple route will not be enough, you need to look into something called NAT (Network Address Translation) in the NET-3-HOWTO. I have this working at home, it's pretty easy to setup once you understand it...
Sz
David Howe wrote:
Hello having a spot of bother.... I have just built a new box as follows Mandrake 7.1 Cyrix M2 333MHz (I know - cyrix - but it only cost me £20 so I wasn't gonna say no) 128 Ram ppp0 = External Dynamode modem eth0 = Via-rhine
this is on 10.10.10.200 netmask 255.255.255.0
this machine connects to the net fine (tada! here I am)
I also have (don't hit me please) a Win2K workstation (10.10.10.100), both are on 10Mbs LAN and ftp, http and SMB is fine between the two.
Win2K machine is looking to 10.10.10.200 for web pages (for example) but is not getting any further i.e. getting no imformation from 10.10.10.200's ppp0 connection. ppp0 was set up in linuxconf rather than kppp and connects fine at boot and the "set default route" option is checked. I have no default route set as Linuxconf help suggested not to for ppp connections as they sort it themselves
What haven't I done?? or what have I done wrong?? which processes should I look for to be running that probably aren't??
any help and sympathy appreciated
Dave
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