Greetings Everyone, I am presently having trouble accessing the external network through a cable modem connected to Rogers@Home with a newly installed copy of GNAT Box Lite V3.01.
Here is my setup and stiuation: 486DX2/66 20MB RAM with two NICs running GNAT Box Lite V3.01 NIC#1 - SMC 8013WC connected to my cable modem using original 10BaseT crossover cable supplied by ISP. NIC#2 - DEC204 connected to my D-Link DSH -5 10/100 Hub with standard CAT-5 10BaseT cable Connected to the hub are 3 workstations running on a Windows 95 OSR2 peer-to-peer network. I am using NetBeui and TCP/IP (default) protocols. I have specified IP addresses and Netmasks on the protected network using Class C private network rules. I have disabled WINS Resolution, not defined a gateway, and disabled DNS, in the TCP/IP Properties for my workstation NICs under Windows 95. Under Windows 95 Networking "Identification", I have entered my own private network computer names, workgroups, and descriptions. The stand-alone workstation that connects to the Internet had its Identification formerly defined using my ISP provided computer name, and workgroup. (problem?) On the Gnat Box I have setup the DEC 204 NIC (le0) to IRQ 5, I/O 300, Mem D0000 using its own software. I don't have the driver disk for the SMC NIC (web site has been down for a week) but I set the jumper for "software" and GNAT box configures it (ed0) as a WD8013 (its former name) NIC at IRQ 10, I/O 280, Mem D8000, and displays a MAC address. The manual hardware jumper settings conflict with the DEC 204 and are not compatible with the settings assigned by GNAT Box (based on what is written in the user manual). I have unsuccessfully tried to configure the firewall for DHCP, so in order to test the hardware I presently have GNAT box configured using a my current ISP assigned IP address (verified using winipcfg). In GNAT Box I entered the computer name, IP address, and Netmask given to me by my ISP (verified using winipcfg) and used the ISP's default gateway as GNAT Box's default route. I defined my DNS using the primary DNS number and subdomain name listed by my ISP. Presently I can access the GNAT Box using the web browser interface through a computer on the protected network. I can also ping every computer, including the External NIC (configured as my "computer IP address" given to me by my ISP) from any computer inside the protected network. If I try to ping any IP address beyond it, the packet is transmitted and doesn't bounce back. The GNAT Box message screen still shows the external NIC as timing out when accessing the Internet during all of this. The card's Rx and Tx lights blink in sequence with the Modem lights so I think there is a good connection between the two. Regards Mark St.George
