On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am a new redhat/linux user, so please excuse my ignorance. :)
>
> I'm trying to setup a home LAN with my Win98 box housing the internet connection,
>and the Linux
> box (RH 6.0) having access to the internet and housing a web and email server. I
>realize that the
> Linux box would make a better server all around, but until I get more familiar with
>the OS, I want
> to leave that to my Win98 box.
>
> I'm having problems getting my two boxes to talk to each other. Here is my current
>config:
>
> Win98 box:
> IP: 192.168.0.1
> subnet: 255.255.255.0
>
> Linux box:
> IP: 192.168.0.2
> subnet: 255.255.255.0
> gateway: 192.168.0.1
>
> I have also added "192.168.0.1 <boxname>" to the /etc/hosts file. I am unable to
>ping either way.
> Any ideas on what the problem might be?
>
Are you sure your eth0 interface is up and running? Can you"ping
127.0.0.1" from the Linux box and obtain the replies? Can you open your
browser, point it to "http://127.0.0.1" and see the homepage from your own
server? Please, post the exact error message that you get.
Also, instead of using the host names make sure you use exclusively the
IPs. It's always better to troubleshoot network problems that way
first since that way you leave possible problems affecting name resolution
out of the picture.
Finally, how did you physically connect the Win98 box to the Linux
box? Ethernet, I suppose? How? Try to describe it.
> Also, what would be the best way to setup internet sharing? I have the original
>Win98, so I don't
> have built-in internet sharing. Will I need to use a 3rd party software package or
>something?
> Whatever the method, I will need to be able to forward incoming data to my linux box
>based on
> ports.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
Not familiar enough with Win98 in that sense, but you shouldn't have any
problems downloading the Internet Sharing bit from the Net, I suppose. I
believe a lot of people use Wingate or something similar for this purpose,
but I don't know how good it is. I heard it is quite insecure. Why don't
you do a search in a place like http://www.tucows.com?
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