Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-31 Thread Peter Ross
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 08:05:44AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fairly simple: Make sure your internal network interface is on one of the private networks. I usually use 192.168.1.1 for the interface (192.168.1/24 is the network) Make your kernel with the ipmasq options, install

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-31 Thread Peter Ross
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:38:34AM -0600, matt garman wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:19:38AM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: 1) Here's the contents of my files on newdebian.home (connected to internet) /etc/hostname: newdebian ... After doing these things, I noticed something else:

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:01:05PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: You may install other services as you see fit. On my proxy I run a DHCP server for my internal LAN, and I run a caching only named. Great, thanks for the info. I'm a bit time-constrained (i.e. lazy), so could anyone send me

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
is enabled. 5) Make sure second ethernet card is enabled and configured 6) Install ipmasq package 7) reboot It's that easy :) I did the above steps, but... I'm trying to setup a home LAN for cable modem sharing. I want my Linux box to act as the server/firewall, and have my roommates connect one

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:19:28AM -0600, matt garman wrote: I configured one of my roommates' Windows box to automatically receive an IP address. I restarted his computer, and watched the output of tail -f /var/log/messages on my Linux box to see if dhcpd assigned an IP address: dhcp made

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 10:33:13PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: why are you trying to use dhcp for a small private lan? just enter static ip addresses into all the machines that are behind the linux firewall. use the 192.168.0.* range. dhcp is more trouble then its worth for just a couple

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread Tom Pfeifer
matt garman wrote: I originally thought that using dhcp would be simpler. Anyway, I went ahead and entered 192.168.0.2 as my roommate's IP address and rebooted his computer. But I still can't even ping my linux box (ping 198.168.0.1) from my roommate's windows box (the ping times out). You

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread ferret
Fairly simple: Make sure your internal network interface is on one of the private networks. I usually use 192.168.1.1 for the interface (192.168.1/24 is the network) Make your kernel with the ipmasq options, install ipmasq package, and restart with the new kernel. I'm assuming you're going to

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:19:38AM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: 2) Here's the other box (olddebian) which shares the internet connection: To bring the interface up: ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0 route add default gw

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread matt garman
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:19:38AM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: 1) Here's the contents of my files on newdebian.home (connected to internet) /etc/hostname: newdebian ... After doing these things, I noticed something else: the output of ifconfig for eth1: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting matt garman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): After doing these things, I noticed something else: the output of ifconfig for eth1: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:5B:DD:F8 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Here is my two cents worth. 1. locate your 'hosts' file, usually in /etc/hosts. Use vi or some other good editor to add ips for the rest of your boxes. should look something like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.10.1main.mylinuxbox.org linux 192.168.10.20 1stwinbox.win.org

cable modem and LAN

2000-03-29 Thread matt garman
Hello: I'm getting a cable modem installation this weekend (ATT @home). In order to not pay for multiple IPs, my three roommates and I are setting up a home network. I plan to run the cablemodem into my Linux box to use it as the server. I have two ethernet cards that are correctly recognized

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 01:40:50PM -0600, matt garman wrote: Hello: I'm getting a cable modem installation this weekend (ATT @home). In order to not pay for multiple IPs, my three roommates and I are setting up a home network. I plan to run the cablemodem into my Linux box to use it as

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-29 Thread Brian Boonstra
Hi Matt The following link: http://linuxrouter.sourceforge.net/documentation/LRP-2.9.4/ has documentation on doing this, for the Debian-based Linux Router Project. For various reasons, you might want to set a machine up with that instead. - Brian