Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
By mistake I bought an Ethernet 8 port Ethernet switch on an on-line
auction, I was looking for a router and got very confused with
terminology. Anyway - is it possible to network two PCs using this
switch, to share dial up modem and printer. I thought the answer was
yes, and tried MCC > Network sharing, but obviously need to do something
more, maybe in second box which is mepis.
Thanks
PS been looking at router prices and look quite a lot to me, in my
situation at present. The terms router, hub, and switch are very
confusing to me , and difficult to distinguish in on-line descriptions.
Rosemary,
You can use this switch for your networking. In a lot of ways, it will
probably work out better for you. What you need to do is configure the
box with the modem with a static IP address in its ethernet interface.
Do NOT set a gateway address or default route on this interface. The
default route will be over your modem connection, and will get set when
you make the dialup connection.
For your second machine, you have a couple of choices. You can set this
one up with a static IP address, and use the IP address of the first
machien as the gateway for the default route. Or you can run a dhcp
server ont he first machine, and let it set things for the second
machine. Both ways work fine.
For a quick setup, to make sure your network works, a static IP may be
the better way to go. Make sure your cabling and such is working right,
and then add features. You can do this manual from the command line.
Machine with modem.
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1
Second machine.
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2
route add default gw 192.168.1.1
You can then use ping to make sure they can see each other. If you have
the ssh service running on one machine, you can use ssh from the other
machine to log into it, and make sure everything works.
This is my output from ping on main box, and I get similar on second
box. Is it correct? I looked at man pages ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ping -v
Usage: ping [-LRUbdfnqrvVaA] [-c count] [-i interval] [-w deadline]
[-p pattern] [-s packetsize] [-t ttl] [-I interface or address]
[-M mtu discovery hint] [-S sndbuf]
[ -T timestamp option ] [ -Q tos ] [hop1 ...] destination
I need to find out about ssh.
At this point, I would consider setting up dnsmasq on the modem machine,
and letting it provide dhcp service for the network. It has the
advantage of providing DNS for the local network, as well as forwarding
requsets from the second machine to your ISP's name servers as set by
your modem connection. It gets the names for the local network from
/etc/hosts on the machine it is running on, as well as from the dhcp
leases it gives out. It also acts as a chaching name server for the
local network. It was written for setups like yours.
I need to find out about this. Going to work this afternoon so it will
be on hold until I get some time.
Once you have this all working, you will need to configure your firewall
to allow trafic over the local ethernet, and restrict it over the modem
connection. You also need to set up Internet connection sharing. MCC has
a section to do this, or it can be set up manualy, but that is for
another message...
Mikkel
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