>>Please forgive my obvious newbie-ness but you gotta start somewhere. I >>am trying to run Eiger Stein Dynamic on a floppy-only PI system with >>identical Netgear FA311 PCI NIC's. > >EigerStein Dynamic is pretty old. You should consider moving to a current >LEAF distribution ... DachStein or Oxygen. > OK I will do that, I was told Oxygen was hard to configure and wasn't sure what all was in it.
>>I have adapted the network.conf and >>the modules file, I uncommented 8390 as per Charles S's suggestion, and >>also uncommented ne2k-pci My internal network (already going off another >>router I built) is a 192.168.100.0/24 so I set all the eth1 stuff >>accordingly. eth1 seems to be able to ping. I can not locate ifconfig >>on this system, that's how I've always checked settings. Is that a >>redhat thing or what? > >what. That is, it is an Eiger thing. Eiger and its descendants use the "ip" >command (the package is sometimes called "iproute") instead of "ifconfig". >Try "ip link show" or "ip addr show", depending on what information you want. > >BTW, you will also find the "route" command to be missing. Use "netstat -nr" >where you would otherwise use "route -n". Yes I noticed that too. > My error the same as his: dhcp says no subnet has >>been written (0.0.0.0) and that I should fix up dhcpd.conf but I looked >>at it and it does have the correct subnet in it. What EXACTLY am I >>supposed to do to dhcpd.conf? > >What EXACTLY are you running DHCP for? The most obvious thing, to get an IP dynamically from external and then share it by routing packets internally. I know I don't need my router to dish out IP's dynamically. My old and now dead hand made redhat based router got its ip from DHCP but all the downstream boxes have static private IP's that I made up for them. I figured I need the DHCP client not the server. My mistake not pruning it off the floppy. I hope it comes in its own .lrp!! >If you already have address assignments on your LAN, you don't need your >LEAF router to dish them out (so you can either ignore this error or "fix" >it by deleting the package from the load list). > >If you need to use DHCP to get your *external* address assigned by your ISP, >you need to run dhclient (the client), -NOT- dhcpd (the server). > >>Any other info you need to answer this I will give. I don't even know >>what's important >>and what's not. You guys do, so ask me the questions. >> >>It also says that eth0 will be the first PCI slot and eth1 will be the >>second. That's top to bottom, skips irrelevent, yes? Just covering that >>base--this is the first time I've allowed myself the luxury of 2 PCI NICS >>in the same box, all the old ones have had at least one ISA. > >It *should* work that way. In practice, I never count on it. > >>I use a netgear FA311 NIC in another router i built, the driver for it is >>natsemi.o which is not in the modules directory in the EigerStein distro >>I have. Should I just put this module in as well? > >Not if the router works now (that is, if the interfaces are recognized, can >be assigned IP addresses, and support pings). Netgear and Linux modules have >been moving targets. > I wouldn't say it exactly works. From what I could tell the internal interface may have been working somewhat because I could ping internally on it. It was unclear just exactly what was working before I knew how to do the equivalents of ifconfig and route -n Seemed like the DHCP stuff didn't work (ergo nothing meaningful off of eth0) but that is probably dhcp and not the modules since the both use the same one. >>and if I do should I >>recomment 8390? For those dependency things I'm beginning to see via >>inductive reasoning that the dependency is implied by the order in which >>they are listed? > >Right, I think. If module A depends on module B, then B has to be loaded >(that is, listed in /etc/modules.conf) ahead of A. > >>Thanks you guys on this list are great. I want to see a linux router for >>every home LAN by the end of 2002. > >Go team! > Colleen Dick Laugh your way to the bank at http://www.navehumor.com _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
