Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > Craig, > > Why would you want this off the list? It is a technical issue, > involving Mandrake.
Lyvim This response was sent to the list, and should have been online. How did it get offline? Did I just send it to you? Maybe it is late, and my coffee is running low :-) > > The first thing I tried, of course, was what you suggested. I wanted the > same thing. I made sure the addresses were unique and on the 192.168.0.x > net with the netmask you recommended, plus the gateway was specified. > Frankly, I wanted this to work; and even though there was no palpable > reason why it would not, it just didn't. Did'nt take the time to dig > into it, I consider winblows a waste of time anyway unless my son and I > are playing BG2 net style(winex won't do net bg). > I have mandrake running on my router/gateway/firewall server, and, of course, it is running NAT. But, and I guess this is a very BIG but, I am running MDK7.2. I love it, and I am not ready to give it up. I have set up the five machines behind my firewall using class c ip addresses. These were set up manually. Now, what I hear you saying is that MDK8.1 or 8.2 will not allow this to happen. If this is true, that is very very bad news indeed, and another reason to stay with MDK7.2. I would like to see this confirmed by the mandrake staff. As I travel around the country, working in large IT departments, of course, I would never recommend not running a DHCP server in a enterprise environment consisting of some 2000 plus end users. But why on earth would Mandrake force someone into using the DHCP service when they have, as Jason does, one machine (yes, and a laptop) behind the firewall. Someone having trouble manually assigning ip address and netmask info on the interface device in a WIN98 machine should not, and I repeat, should not be asked to set up a DHCP server in the very beginning when all he or she hopes to accomplish is ICS. This does not make any sense to me. Now as far as the difficulty you had with the WIN98 machine. What do you mean when you say it would not work? You could not get WIN98 to take the ip assignment? WIN98 took the ip address but would not route through the gateway server? See, hear in lies Jason's issue, he has a ip address on the WIN98 machine that will not allow him to ever get out to the internet through the gateway server. He must change that IP address in one of two ways: one way is to manually configure it (and I would hate to think that any version of Linux, being ran on the gateway server, would preclude me from making manual changes to my private client machines). For someone relatively new to Linux, the second way is the complicated way. He or she must setup a DHCP server and setup all of the client machines with dhcp client info. Hmmm, I guess I know which method I would recommend that this person do. And it sounds like, in addition to some ip addressing, some gateway addressing needs to be look at too. This most likely involves looking at what is setup in that dang winbloze machine. Now if I could truly be candid for a second, I would suggest he give that software the heave-ho. But like you, and many others that have young ones around, that might not be possible. The letter I took offline was address to Ron G. because I felt it was necessary to explain somethings that might have not been helpful to the whole gang out here just waiting for all the good stuff we see on the list :-). Anyway, Lyvim, thanks for your concern, and as of now, due to my verbosity, you are the only one at this line in the letter.... he...he....he -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration -Art is the illusion of spontaneity-
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