On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:16:52PM +0100, MAL wrote:
> Ok, so you either need a second network card, or use the dubious method
> of doing to accross a hub as described elsewhere in this thread :)
I'll ask my ISP how to do this. I sure hope I can do it dubiously...
sounds easier :)
> >Can't see those. I can see "Network packet filtering (replaces ipchains)"
> >though. vanilla-sources-2.4.21.
>
> Yes, my mistake. If you enable 'Network packet filtering', the option I
> mentioned above will magically appear :)
Got it, thanks.
> >How do I do this? My PC seems to automatically retrieve its IP address.
> >Is it done through adsl-setup?
>
> It's getting an external IP address from the modem via PPP. This is
> correct, and I assume this is being assigned to your eth0 interface?
Nope... it gets assigned to ppp0. eth0 doesn't seem to have an IP
address.
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:B4:B6:17:35
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:68147 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:53293 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:17 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:76868013 (73.3 Mb) TX bytes:6387245 (6.0 Mb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400
That's odd though... isn't it supposed to be a micro-LAN between the PC
and the modem, in such a way that I could telnet into the modem for
maintenance?
> You should set your _second_ network card's IP address to 192.168.0.254
>
> See the Gentoo documentation on how to do this.
Makes sense. And then the PCs can just "see" each other? If I set Samba
up here and configure my printer, the win98 box will be able to see it?
> 192.168.x.x is a range of IP addresses, reserved for LAN use. That is,
> they are not valid on the internet.
>
> There is also 172.16.x.x-172.31.x.x and 10.x.x.x , but these are for
> larger local networks.
I see. This also means, I guess, that my other box won't have an
external IP address (nor will it have a connection at all when this one
is off). That's how my old cable ISP worked... we had 10.x.x.x
addresses (which sucked if I wanted to have an FTP server for friends on
a different ISP).
Thanks for all of your help!
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