Hello All, I'm in the process of resurrecting a 486 to be used as a firewall to enable multiple machines here on my home lan to access a single cable modem via IP masquerading. I'm having some problems getting my ethernet cards working so I'm hoping that you'll help me out a bit. (I'm new to Debian and Linux, but not new to UNIX in general.)
After doing a base install of slink 2.1.9-1999-03-03, I added two D-Link DE-220PCT cards to the system. I used the D-Link setup program to set the IRQ and base addresses to unique values. Next, I added alias entries to /etc/modutils/aliases to configure these cards use the ne driver since my understanding is that they are NE2000-compatible. Upon reboot, ifconfig does indeed recognize the cards as eth0 and eth1. However, I'm unable to get either of the cards to talk to other machines on the net. I notice that after doing: ifconfig eth0 <ip address> netmask <netmask> ... the "netstat -rn" command does not report an entry for the card. This seems odd to me. I've tried manually to establish a reasonable "netstat -rn" entry for it by invoking various forms of the route command, but to no avail. In the end, I can ping the IP address for the card itself, but I can't ping anything out on the network. Does anyone have any suggestions? Anyone have experience with using DE-220PCT NIC cards? Or maybe since I'm new to Debian I'm just missing something obvious when it comes to configuring new drivers on the system. Thanks much, Mike Nielson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
