Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
et wrote:

On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 00:36 +1200, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:

the internet connect needs to go from wall to modem, from modem to Mandrake box, then on and rj45 (cat 5 )cable from the mandrake box to the switch, then from the switch to any other box on the network. we can walk you though the steps need to share the dialup connection, adn you may be able to make all the the changes needed on your own in the internet connection sharing wizard of MCC.


Okay - yes the Internet connect goes to modem, to first box with mandriva, to switch, then another cable from switch to second box. Does the cable from first box to switch go to ordinary port in switch or to Uplink?
I've had a fiddle in MCC - but obviously not quite right yet.


first, can and do you get a good dial up connection from mandriva box
through modem and to internet?
with that connected, I would just go to the switch not uplink, if you
are only going to connect to one other computer.
with the modem connected to the internet, please do include the output
of (as root in a text console, without the quote marks) "ifconfig" and
of "cat etc/hosts" and compare the same 'cat /etc/hosts on teh ther box, they need to both
list the IP numbers of the box they wish to connect to, (not the IP of
the Internet connection which is the 'ppp' connection.
Might be good to know more about the switch you got, make and model?

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0D:87:86:2B:AD
          inet6 addr: fe80::20d:87ff:fe86:2bad/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:827 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:16416 (16.0 Kb)  TX bytes:132871 (129.7 Kb)
          Interrupt:23 Base address:0xd800

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:4523 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4523 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:734873 (717.6 Kb)  TX bytes:734873 (717.6 Kb)

ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:203.99.22.91 P-t-P:192.168.251.53 Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:10823 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:10133 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
          RX bytes:6206484 (5.9 Mb)  TX bytes:964849 (942.2 Kb)

sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          inet6 addr: ::127.0.0.1/96 Scope:Unknown
          UP RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 coleraine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ localhost




And in second box - mepis:
ifconfig:
Linkencap:local feedback
lo
inet address 127.0.0.1
mask 255.0.0.0

cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1  limavady  local  host
#The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
#(added automaticaly by netbase upgrade.)
::1    ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe 00::     0 ip6-localnet
fe 00::        0 ip6-mcast prefix
fe 02::        1 ip6-allnodes
fe 02::        2 ip6-allrouters
fe 02::        3 ip6-allhosts

Hopes there's no syntax errors as have had to copy second box details by hand.


It's an XNET 8 port ethernet switch SH-9008P

Houston, We have a problem! All of a sudden, I see why your connection isn't working properly. None of your network cards have IP addresses except for the modem connection!

Since your switch is only a switch, it lacks a DHCP server, and therefore none of your systems are capable of getting IP addresses and therefore they can't connect to each other at all.

This is easily fixable, but to do this, we'll need to get a few bits of info from you. Please run the following command and send me (or us) the results.

route -n

Thanks!

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Mr. Geek
Registered Linux User #190712

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