Hi Brian [and all the others who helped],
Thanks very much to all who gave me advice the last
couple of days.
The problems turned out to be mostly 'bad hardware'...
2 bad Nics and a bad cable.
Routing seems to work ok on two of the machines but I'm
having problems pinging between BOX-1 and BOX-2.
My Goal here is to use a
WIN-95 machine
[ with a 'server' s/w pkg & Dual Phone Line Modem]
'BOX-1' to dialup the ISP
and pass the packets to... 'BOX-2'
a RH-5.2 Linux Machine [ IP Masqueraded Firewall Box]
which is used to protect my local network[ just 'BOX-3' now].
I am doing it this way because I don't have access to
DSL or ISDN but I do have access to Dual Phone Line technology.
Eventually I will be able to get high speed service and will
eliminate Box-1 and connect Box-2 directly to the ISP.
I do not yet have the 'server s/w package' installed on the
WIN-95 Machine-BOX-1.
The following is
my current system...
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MY ISP
|
|
|
>------|== SupraSonic Dual Line/ 56k Modem '106k down'
|
|--Box-1 A WIN-95 MACHINE [w/ a 'server s/w package']
|
| THE GATEWAY for This Box is 0.0.0.0 [is set by ppp process]
|
| WIN-95
|
>------|---eth0 IP= 10.0.0.1 Mask= 255.0.0.0
|
|
|
>------|---eth1 IP= 10.0.0.2 Mask= 255.0.0.0
|
|==Box-2 RH-5.2 [an IP-Masqueraded[IPFWADM]firewall Machine]
|
| THE GATEWAY for This Box is 10.0.0.1
| LINUX[ RH-5.2]
>-----|---eth0 IP= 192.168.127.65 Mask= 255.255.255.0
|
|
>--|
|==LynkSys HUB, 10BT, 5 ports
>--|
|
>--|---eth0 IP=192.168.127.68 Mask= 255.255.255.0
|
|--Box-3 a DUAL BOOTED Machine-WIN-95 & LINUX[RH-6.1]
|
| THE GATEWAY IP# for This Box is 192.168.127.65
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My /etc/hosts [on all machines] contains....
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
10.0.0.1 in.domain.name in #[BOX-1 eth0]
10.0.0.2 nut.domain.name nut #[BOX-2 eth1]
192.168.127.65 gw.domain.name gw #[BOX-2 eth0]
192.168.127.68 luk.domain.name luk #[BOX-3 eth0]
---------------------------------------------------------------
On BOX-2... 'gw.domain.name' [non-public domain name & IP#s]
'netstat -nr shows....
192.168.127.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0 lo
10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 1500 0 0 eth1
0.0.0.0 10.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1500 0 0 eth1
---------------------------------------------------------------
On BOX-2... 'gw.domain.name' [non-public domain name & IP#s]
my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file has...
ipfwadm -F -p deny
ipfwadm -F -a -m -S 192.168.127.0/24 -D 10.0.0.0/8
---------------------------------------------------------------
On BOX-3... 'luk.domain.name' [non-public domain name & IP#s]
a WIN-95 Box - dual booted with RH-6.1
I am able to ping from Box-2 to Box-3...
I am able to ping from Box-3 to Box-2
to
10.0.0.2 nut.domain.name nut [ eth1 ] on BOX-2
192.168.127.65 gw.domain.name gw [ eth0 ] on BOX-2
BUT...
I cannot ping to '10.0.0.1 in.domain.name' [eth0] on BOX-1
from either BOX-2 or BOX-3.
I also cannot ping from BOX-1 to anything on BOX-2 or BOX-3
I'm hoping someone can tell me whether I should expect to be
able to ping from the local network [BOXES-2 & 3] to BOX-1
prior to installing the 'server s/w package'[ on BOX-1] ?
My guess is that since I have no server-s/w on BOX-1 that
that is the reason I cannot ping there yet.
OR what else might I need to do next?
Many thanks in advance to you all
for your assistance.
Johnny
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Brian wrote:
> >
> > However the 2nd machine has an old [but I thought functioning NIC]
> > nic which does not have any lights.
> >
> > Do you think I should replace the nic on the second machine and
> > test it all again?
>
> possibly.................
>
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