Hi. So The vintage os is acting as a router. (shudder) So the outer nic is shared, and the connection is made through the inner nic on the vintage puter. Check that card, if i would be mistaken it should be 192.168.0.1, your first ip in this private range. That is good. (what is bad is Mandrake has chosen the same ip address, and i guess you know what that means :-))) Then check the mandrake a set it to ANY OTHER IP. a 192.168.0.2 would do. the default gateway should be 192.168.0.1, the inner nick of the vintage, and you have the choice of setting the dns on the mandrake to point to 192.168.0.1 or to your isp's real dns server. The cross cable i definately a very cheap alternative, but i would still recomment a small 4 port router with deacent capabilities. It will not break your budget. Cheers Szemir On Sunday 15 June 2003 22:16, you wrote: > Hi there > > Just checked out the newbie website (the faq mostly) and want to say that > that's a great idea! thanks for going to the effort for us! > > Unfortunately, i was unable to find out what i was looking for. I'm > attempting to home network my win xp box with an older ibm running mandrake > 9.0 via ethernet cards and a crossover (brand new) rj45 cable. I've googled > for this info and found what sounded like it would work. it said to go into > my network places and share an internet connection. it said that the > network card that is connected to the internet is the one to share. i then > configured the mandrake's network connection (using the wizard and without > the wizard) and assigned the ip address to the mandrake as that which shows > up on the windows box (192.168.0.1, subnet mask 255.255.255.0). during the > configuration process, the status of the ethernet card on the winxp box > shows packets sent and some received. i figured that that should do it, > however, i cannot get out on the linux box. also, when the extra card is > enabled, it messes up my regular connection and i can't get out on the > winxp box. is there something i'm missing? do i need to install something > else on the linux computer? as it sits, i need to keep the winxp computer > as the main machine with the primary internet connection and share it with > the linux computer (not ideal, i suppose, but it's the compromise that i > must accept...for now). > > thanks, > > chris stoesz
