Would go quicker if you provided your config's and/or log snippets....
"doesn't seem to be working" really doesn't give us much to go by.. :)
/var/log/messages is a good place to start..
It's cool how yer like one of 8 people using ME in real life tho.. I've heard
about you! :)
-matt
ps - i run nearly the same setup as you are wanting, except with only linux
boxes.
On October 4, 2003 09:13 pm, Anton wrote:
> Sorry but there is a stony silence on newbie... there seems to be a lot
> of political traffic though... if this is not the place to be asking the
> sorts of questions I'm asking could someone please direct me to the
> right place?
> Thanks
> Anton
>
> Hi,
> I am trying to set up my mandrake 9.1 box to be the gateway to my
> recently created network with a single windoze ME machine on the private
> subnet. I have finally managed to get the ME machine able to reach the
> outside world but to be honest I can't really work out how! I tried
> pretty much everything and nothing worked... and then it just started
> working. My general process was to just keep running drakgw until the
> damn thing worked - finally it did. (i tried knetfilter, and everything
> else I could get my hands on, but I'm still a newbie...). The problem is
> this. EVERY time I want the ME machine to work I have to rerun drakgw.
> Not only that, however, but I have to go in and manually reset the
> default to the dialup address, as running drakgw always seems to put the
> default back to my home net interface (ethernet). What is going on here?
> Also simply booting up the ME machine resets the default route to the
> address of the local subnet interface! (even though it be on the dialup
> after connecting to the net)
> Another issue is that the dhcp doesn't seem to be working. I originally
> set up a network with XP (which I also have on the mdk9.1 box) and used
> a disk created by the xp wizard to get it going. Somehow ME always
> manages to set the IP address to 192.168.0.163, and the gateway to
> 192.168.0.1 - what it originally had for the xp network. Mdk9.1 seems to
> want to have a subnet starting with 192.168.1.1 but ME isn't listening
> to the dhcp (which I guess should be running, as it seems as if that is
> what it says it is doing) and just sets itself to 192.168.0.163. If I
> set the mdk9.1 to statically come out with 192.168.0.1 then, as long as
> I rerun the config tool, keeping the IP addresses the same for dns and
> others then after I reset the default I can access the net with both
> machines. This is an enormous amount of hassle and I'm sure there is
> something silly I'm not doing. Any suggestions?
> Cheers
> Anton
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