>I presume I better ask these kind of questions in an other 
>discussion list, like
>newbie ?

Naw.

>>  I instaled Mandrake 8.2 on my PM 7600. I have now some internet/LAN setup
>>  problems:
>>
>>  I tried to setup internet sharing, but it completely messed up my system. My
>>  internet connection runs via eth1 and my local network via eth0 (in
>>  principle, it doesn' work yet).
I copied the files used to setup the ethernet interface(s), I left 
the values I use (for this host) intact as it is a internal server. 
Your error message about MAC address is confusing to me, my config 
files don't have MAC addresses in them.

To check how your interfaces are configured, use 'ifconfig -a' which 
should list if the interfaces are up or down, their IP addresses (if 
any), net masks, etc. If you change your config files and want to see 
if they work, you can go to single user, then back to runlevel 3, 
that brings down the interfaces and runs the network init scripts 
without waiting for a complete reboot.

I assume your internet facing interface (did I write that?) is 
connected via PPPoE, I am not familiar with a setup for that.

Here is a sample ifcfg-eth0 file:

NAME=mail
DEVICE=eth0
IPADDR=192.168.2.2
BOOTPROTO=static
ONBOOT=yes
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.2.1
DNS1=192.168.2.1
DNS2=

You also need a valid /etc/resolv.conf:

search silveroaks.com
nameserver 192.168.2.1

and a valid /etc/sysconfig/network:

NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=mail.silveroaks.com
FORWARD_IPV4=no
DEFRAG_IPV4=no
GATEWAY=192.168.2.1
GATEWAYDEV=eth0
NISDOMAIN=
IPX=no
-- 
Charles Dostale
System Administrator
Silver Oaks Communications
http://www.silveroaks.com
824 17th Street
Moline IL USA  61265
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309-797-9898

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