On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 09:36:57PM +0000, Andrew Benton wrote:
> I've never had to think about a default gateway as ppp0 has always been the 
> only connection. defaultroute is one of the pppd options. How do I do the 
> eth0, 192.168.x.x thing?
> 
> echo 1>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> doesn't give an error
> 
> ifconfig ppp0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
> doesn't give an error but it also doesn't connect the xbox
> 
> ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device

You'll need to get your internal network going before you can join it to
the external network. Since you said you had this going with Windows
beforehand, I assume you do have a network card in the machine? You'll
need the correct kernel module for it which should provide the eth0
device.

~Ainsley
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