>I am hoping that you can help me. I am also hoping that I don't come
>across as a twit. I am a long time Windows user. I still consider
>myself and OS/2 person, but I had to give up on it.
No worries.. any Linux user is a good user. Too bad about OS/2 but
it was the interface that killed it. MS didn't help much either.
>For now, all I want to be able to do is get my NT box to see the
>Internet. I have given my second nic card in my Linux box the IP number
>129.0.0.1 and the nic card in my NT box 129.0.0.2 I believe they both
>have the subnet of 255.255.0.0
First.. re-address your private network to something standard like:
10.x.x.x
172.16.x.x
192.168.x.x
Trust me..
>I have told the NT box the default gateway is 129.0.0.1 but I do not get
>any Internet. I have heard something about IP masking, but I have
>NO clue about this.
You need to setup IP Masquerading. I recently overhauled the HOWTO
to be more user friendly, have more troubleshooting in it, etc.
Give it a look at:
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/LINUX/index-linux.html#ipmasq
PS. Regarding your Dual processor box, I would HIGHLY recommend to start
over with a new distribution. Most of the major Linux distributions
have come out with new versions based on the 2.2.x kernel. This
new kernel, amoung other things, has vastly improved SMP support.
I know you just got 5.2 installed but I promise you the re-install
will help in the long run. Check them out:
Redhat 6.0
SuSe 6.1
Caldera 2.2?
etc..
If you are looking for a great place to get the freeware versions (and
some commercial versions), goto:
http://www.cheapbytes.com
Once you have that rolling.. your SMP box should be good to go though I
would recommend to then upgrade to a 2.2.7+ or better kernel. To see
if your CPUs are being utilized, run the "xosview" in Xwindows.
To best see both processors being used, when you compile stuff like
the kernel, etc.. do it as follows:
make -j 4 dep
make -j 4 clean
make -j 5 bzImage
The "-j 4" tells GCC to run "4" copies of GCC at once and this is when
the SMP stuff shines!
Anyone else have some good SMP tricks for Linux?
--David
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