On Friday 26 January 2001 23:58, you wrote:
> I'm having some problems with Mandrake 7.2's Internet connection sharing
> feature. First, I'll say that I upgraded my kernel to 2.4 final (via
> latest cooker RPMs) right after I installed 7.2. It might have some
> significance. I didn't set up Internet connection sharing until later,
> when I realized that I needed to do host-only networking in VMware to
> connect to the Internet from my virtual machine. (I wanted to share my
> connection via VMware's virtual ethernet interface, vmnet1.)
>
> So I went into DrakConf and selected "Internet Connection Sharing". I
> was prompted with the message "Warning, the network adapter is already
> configured. Would yo like to reconfigure?" I answered yes. I realized
> that my network adapter had already been configured, because the host
> machine was set up to connect to the Internet. (I connect via my
> ethernet card to my LAN which provides Internet access.) After
> selecting "yes" the program did some stuff like install a DHCP server
> and reconfigure my scripts. I was surprised to find that it didn't even
> need to ask me which ethernet interface I wanted it to share the
> connection over, especially since vmnet1 is an interface with a
> non-standard name.
>
> It turns out that after the "Internet Connection Sharing" program did
> its stuff, my whole Internet connection went down on my host machine.
> It improperly reconfigured my system so that I couldn't connect to the
> Internet anymore (nor could I share my network connection with any
> VMware virtual machine). I found out that the reason I couldn't connect
> to the Internet anymore was because it changed my IP address on my real
> ethernet interface (the one that hooks up to the LAN) to 192.168.0.1 or
> something like that. So I changed it back to what it had to be in order
> for the LAN to grant me a connection again. It made no modifications to
> the settings for my vmnet1 interface, somewhat as I had expected,
> unfortunately.
>
> In any case, every time I boot my computer, a bunch of things FAIL now,
> including the DHCP server and some other connection sharing services
> that get started. I'm not sure why they're failing. Could it be
> because they are not compatible with the iptables features of kernel 2.4
> (instead of ipchains)? Or is it because I had changed my IP address on
> my primary ethernet interface from 192.168.0.1 back to my normal one?
>
> How do I get my connection to share for VMware? I don't have a real LAN
> which I want to share the connection with, it's a virtual one. Is it
> possible that Mandrake doesn't support this yet? And is it also
> possible that the Internet Connection Sharing is incompatible with
> kernel 2.4?
>
Uh huh. Internet connection sharing uses ipchains which needs emulation or a
compatibility library to work in 2.4, because a new setup is now available.
Internet connection sharing uses ip-masquerade which is a feature of the
kernel. In 2.0 the interface was ipfwadm, in 2.2 it was ipchains, and now it
is iptables [Netfilter] in 2.4. So you are trying to access the same kernel
function with an old interface.
Civileme
> Thanks for your help,
> Paul
