On wo, 04 jun 2003, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: > Now, since my laptop has a network card I just want to connect it to > eth1 in the server (a card already reserved for my laptop). eth0 > connects to an ethernet LAN with coaxial cable. eth1 is a RJ45 cable > connecting directly to the laptop network card. I would like laptop to > access network card through my server.
> Do I need to modify anything on the server to share internet to the > laptop? > Laptop comes with winXP, I already resized partition to install Gentoo. > But I need a network connection to install gentoo from stage 1, so I'll > have to configure it also on the laptop. Any ideas on how to do this? You must use IP Masquerading on the server to forward IP packets from and to the laptop. (look for a howto on the net) > I'm noticing with ethereal in server that if I ping 192.168.0.4 from > laptop my server won't answer and If I ping 192.168.0.5 (laptop) from > server nothing returns also. Does this happen when you're running XP or Gentoo ? If XP detected your card, then it must be the IP Masquerading issue. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
